Our politicians continue to smoke the mirrors by talking about nothing of substance, and of making “security” or family life an issue of national governance, when much more serious issues continue to press.
Imagine you run a family farm, and one of the workers was painting a fence when 3 acres of tomatoes needed to be picked or rot on the vine. Imagine you run a business, and your accountant can’t explain where funds are going. Imagine you live in a village and one family is using the community well as a toilet.
But there you have it. Anyone whose brain hasn’t been choked by smoke can see that the consumption outstrips the production; that in our daily fog we are using up the planet, only to have the fog shot through now and again by rays of light — which are not a sign of anything good.
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— As it happens, buried within Fukushima’s complexities the pubic encounters an enigma, as expressed by Dr. Baverstock, “I’m really appalled at the way the international system has failed… Quite frankly, we don’t get anything through the media… There is no general understanding of the situation here in Europe, because the media are not putting this view forward. In fact, I think many people would be very surprised that it was still a matter for discussion. They would be even more surprised to learn that it’s still an ongoing accident, and that it hasn’t terminated yet… and they would be more surprised to learn that nobody knows how to stop it.”
— Nobody knows how to stop it, is the storyline in the aftermath of Fukushima.
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So an accident in our fragile infrastructure makes a permanent hotspot of some square kilometers of Earth. This is not a Japanese issue, but a human issue. Forest fires (caused by the clearing of land by multinational corporations) are raging through the Indonesian archipelago, spewing in one week what one year of auto emissions creates. This is not an Indonesian issue, but a human issue. Thirty percent more coal is burned in China than reported. A human issue. A monopoly of seed production threatens local economies and national ecologies. A human issue. A monopoly on water rights threatens strained ecologies and forces local populations to pay to drink.
One person cannot change the course of a multitude, if the multitude is hell-bent on mutual destruction. Major wars happen despite the desires of the public. Yet it is our human responsibility to uncover, process, and act on both local and global human issues. The voice matters. The dollar matters more. Learn to live with less. Make this month be a Net Savings month. Learn to create things that would otherwise be purchases. Sell your car. Slow down. Meditate in church or in a circle of friends.
Think.
Feel.
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