ALIENS DON’T COME FROM ANOTHER PLANET
by Rashad Carre
In ‘War of The Worlds’ aliens come to suck the world dry. They come with machines to harvest everything for their benefit. Now look at what’s happened since the birth of the Industrial Age to our world? Out of control hyper hungry systems devouring without limits. They’re fighting each other, society and the physical earth, for their very survival as masters of this world. Do we really think they’re going to relinquish their ways that easily?
So there’s a two-fold attack taking place; physical and societal. Physically, the earth laughed at it all, at first. Now it’s talking, so don’t be surprised by what it’s saying, even though a brave few were already listening in the 1970s. But as a whole, what have countries done? They have set up discussion groups, committees, even better, panels of experts. Then the panels of experts looked at creating ministries to discuss sending consultants to write up reports. But when the governments didn’t like what they had to say, more experts were created until economic leaders heard what they wanted to hear. And only then was the data officially published, pushing forward ever more the infamous tipping point. And of course, time ticks on with business as usual.
So now we find ourselves with ever more frequent record-breaking weather events. And still debates continue. The thing is we’ll never devolve ourselves from the masters of our society who pressure, even work with, governments to be our spokespersons. They even made us believe that the responsibility of the impending climate catastrophe lies with us, the consumer, the general public. A clever ruse to divert focus from those who control our resources, the earth we all live on, the air we all breathe, the water we all use, and the type of society we need to govern it all.
The problem with this ruse is that we have to live with what’s provided. The only way not to, is, for example, to produce our own food, our own clothes and our own tools – an impossible task in modern times. Yet it’s virtually impossible to find out just how ethically or responsibly the goods we use are produced. It causes frustration. In turn, producers and decision-makers have gradually consolidated their power to organise governments to their needs. So does the responsibility of a healthy, sustainable society really lie with the consumer?