Drum Roll for Revolutionary Manifesto, Please

Mass Murder by Starvation, OnGoing Species Extinction and Corporate Fascism
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Change the Global Mindset

A minor hallelujah if you will. Live8 founders have won a major 40 Billion dollar concession from G8 counties, releasing Africa from its debtload. The efforts of these world’s prominent musicians (Geldof used to hang in Vancouver) and environmental groups are most laudable in organizing the global effort focusing as it does on world poverty. In this heightened state of awareness, allow me to suggest a more long term and even possibly a permanent fix to our current global dilemma.

Tap tap tap. Now listen up class.

It’s really very simple. This situation we face of mass starvation in Africa (again), species extinction and criminal corporate greed is the result of our own peculiar social evolution. The world has witnessed extreme improvements in communications technology and hence speedier deal-making and economic shifts.

Who, for example, would have considered China to become such a major player, and so quickly that their government hasn’t even bothered to address its human rights issues among its own people before stampeding into the global marketplace? And to the shame of most countries of any economic significance, China has been allowed to neglect those issues of human decency and bully its way around with its unchecked, dubious moral status.

It’s in this neglect and charging around where we find the actual evidence of the problem which has plagued mankind throughout our human history. These economic actions and decisions are now playing out on a global field and their consequences are hurrying along the demise of our very living environment. Witness the extreme pollution warnings sounding right now back in Montreal and Toronto, and that whole Canadian northeastern industrial hub. Asthmatics are wired for oxygen and carcinogens are being gulped by children at play.

Well if we can expedite the demise of our environment through enhanced communications technology then why can’t we expedite the recovery of our environment the same way? All we would need is the will to change the global mindset, shifting away from plundering to preservation.

And now that we can all see the evidence in satellite photographs of the devastation of the Amazon, the Dead Sea, the sacred forests of India etc etc and witness also the degree of air and ocean pollution we have created as a global society what choice do we really have? Much sooner than we expected it will be a matter of grasping at desperate straws to see our way clear again.

So here’s Uncle Harry’s really very simple...