December Weather

I had dinner with my mother last night and we talked about global warming.  There are many people who deny that we are in a warming trend but when you see chunks of ice drop off Antarctica double the size of Texas you ought to be questioning what is happening.  This past year the globe has seen 11 significant disasters caused by weather (3 deadly hurricanes,           

There is no denying we are in global warming trend but what are the movers and shakers doing about it?  Our own prime minister has rejected the Kyoto accord without committing to any alternative.  The United States has never accepted the accord.  Two nations who want to be world leaders not committing to environmental protection?  What makes either country better than China who clearly doesn’t care about anything but money, money, money?  It doesn’t.  The fact is that most of our leaders are only out for themselves; they have the backs of their families (one suspects anyway) but the rest of us peons are simply that, peons.  We are not protected and when the disaster strikes we will be left out in the cold quite literally.

            Given that this is the way it really is, that governments are simply a phantasm run by greedy, corrupt human beings, why do we give so much weight to being law-abiding citizens?  Because we are told this is the way we ought to be, we ought to be civilized.  I’ve thought about this quite a lot and in my considered opinion most people are genuinely good and want things to be good, fair and equal for all.  There is a handful of people around the globe who want Everything.  I find it incomprehensible, but this is the fact.  This is why we will never become a truly civilized World.  Some few people cannot endure the idea of anyone else having something They Want.  It’s really quite frightening when you think about it long enough.

            When I watch these programs about The End, I find myself being extremely vengeful and just wishing the absolute worst will happen to these greedy bastards.  And yet, whenever humanity begins something new, right away you will find a few “leaders” making it cushy for themselves.  The book “Animal Farm” is such a perfect allegory of what happens to us, time and time again.  When will we learn?  Watching the polar bears on the Coca Cola commercial and crunching the numbers they are donating, please, give me a break.  Who are you kidding?  We will never learn, the polar bears will die off and then we will follow them into the icy cold waters that swallow up the land.

            That’s my thought of the day as I count down to 2012.