Destruction of the Earth’s Last Frontier

We have thoroughly polluted the earth’s atmosphere with disastrous results. We are raping the surface of the earth as fast as we can build machines to make it happen – leaving it scarred and unnourished.  We are now on the verge of opening the floor of the ocean to mass exploitation. After extracting the materials we will be mining, the refuse will be dumped back into the ocean, full of death-dealing materials that will pollute and kill the water’s natural environment.  The process has already begun in almost every ocean that exists. The door is just beginning to open.

The United Nations is trying to hammer out some rules for this exploitation that will minimize the environmental damage.  But the nations of the world will have to agree on these rules and abide by them.  And, as we already know from experience, this is a precarious trust that will be maximally violated.  So, the last frontier on earth is about to be opened to human destruction.  Its opening will be hailed with the same promise of stewardship that has led to the uninhibited destruction of the planet’s sky and the ground.

We humans are ingenious inventors when it comes to getting at the resources we wish to utilize in our amazing world of technology.  We are total failures when it comes to repairing the damage done in this exploitation.  The difference between the two is motivation.  And, so far, we have not been nearly as motivated to restore as we have been to destroy.  Our faith in our capacity to undo what we have already done (technology will save us) finds no historical justification in either the creation or application of our inventiveness. We are living on a false premise and promise.

And from where does this falseness derive? From those who invent the machinery of exploitation.  And who are they?  They are the ones who have always placed the amassing of wealth above everything else – whether it be people or environment.  They are economic imperialists.  They have been called by many names including colonizers, Robber Barons, and capitalists. In America they have captured the Republican Party and the White House.  And they are ensconced in that one percent that own most of the wealth in America.  They are in the catbird seat and about to unleash the earth’s final destruction.

What can be done to stop this continuing exploitation and establish a sense of working partnership with the earth that sustains us?  Only one thing: Actually electing people to government positions that believe in democracy and know that capitalism must be its tool and not vice versa.  This means creating a voter revolution.  And this revolution will only be successfully motivated by:

• Understanding that our survival as a species is not tied to how much we have in our bank account but by how we relate to one another and the earth that sustains us.
• Creating this kind of government before it is too late – with hope that earth’s destruction is not already beyond the point of no return. 

The spirit that drives such a revolution must be that of an absolute imperative.

Robert