Thursday, 10 September 2009

Owning up to our little peccadillos!

At every level, racial (whites), religious (Christian), wealth (the rich),
geographical location (western Europeans, Australasia, and North
Americans), it is our ancestors and we today who are the problem on this
planet. Our side, for a thousand years and going strong, are the primary
perpetrators of suffering for all humanity - and, some would say, the
animal kingdom, too.

First it was from exploration, trade, war and subjugation. From that list,
for some, we can now only delete 'subjugation'. To the list is now added
the catastrophic consequences of the industrialised nations' climate change
and their rapacious exhaustion of resources. They/we are imperilling all
humanity by these ruinous behaviours.

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