Climate Change/Disruption (along with wildlife habitat damage/destruction by humans) is causing many animal populations to find a new home. The result is an increase in contact and sharing of new viruses among different animals. A new study in the journal, Nature, shows how that scenario likely will result in more pandemics in the human population.
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/29/ed_yong_pandemicene
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04788-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01198-w
Meanwhile, too many national Leaders around the globe appear to be working on window-dressing solutions to Climate Change, or simply kicking the can down the road in other ways. On top of that, Leaders in a few places have launched wars during this time of an existential threat labeled the socio-eco-econ-ethical crisis. Having done so, they exhibit monumental ignorance. It's no wonder that many Main Street people are losing faith in the capabilities of national politicians...all across the political spectrum.
Not all, but most of the progress toward solutions to the crisis are happening below the national level. Such is orders of magnitude better than nothing, but it will not suffice. In fact, more is needed than just national efforts. The crisis is global, not only national, or provincial, or city-wide. Global planning and cooperation is crucial if civil society is to survive and thrive.
To those who may be concerned primarily with their national territorial imperative (see the book by Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative) and the freedom of independence, please consider the following points---
1) Neither of those two concepts will do you much good if you have insufficient food, potable water, clean air, unpolluted soil, etc., or if we all are ravaged by viral diseases, or have collapsed economies, or exist in a neofeudal society with only the very Rich and the relatively Poor, or if we're sick from a toxic environment.
2) Cooperating to combat/mitigate/alleviate an existential global crisis does NOT have to mean losing nationhood or freedom in general. Some sacrifices will have to be made by all of us, but you won't become a slave.
3) In a real sense, the current system is making you a slave--- to Debt, and to the Rat Race of unlimited economic growth + overconsumption...while polluting our limited/finite habitat. Who benefits? Overwhelmingly, it's the Super-Rich, the Upper Crust, the new aristocrats.
Bottom line: stop drinking the Propaganda Kool Aid coming from the State-Corporate-Financial Complex. Ignore the sound bites and the molding of the public mind. Question everything. Ignore the Bread & Circuses. Dig deep when you study an issue. Think out of the box we've all been put into.
The public and private Powers-That-Be want you to believe technology is going to save us from the existential threat we're facing. Without a paradigm shift in values/ethics, it won't.
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Not only my opinion. Be Well
