To:
letters@guardian.co.uk Re: “End of the world nigh - it's official” Ha, Ha. Date: Fri, 14 February 2003 |
Dear Sir/Madam,
“End
of the world nigh - it's
official” Ha, Ha. That is
about as funny as the
headline “End of
European Jewry in
sight”, in response to
Hitler becoming German
chancellor in 1933 would
have been! The
situation described by
Michael Meacher is
today’s Guardian is no
joking matter. It’s
deadly serious. Or
perhaps it was written
with a nervous, slightly
hysterical giggle . . . What do
you do when faced with
looming cataclysm,
compared to which those of
the 20th Century will pale
into insignificance? You can
joke about it and pretend,
or convince yourself, that
it isn't going to happen
– especially if you are
over 50 and might
reasonably hope to be dead
and gone before things get
really bad – or we can
think of our children and
coming generations, who
are going to curse our
bones if we don’t wake
up to the danger we are
putting them in, and start
taking appropriate action. But what
can we possible do that is
going to make any
significant difference?
Our situation looks pretty
hopeless. All that will save us is a revolution, i.e. rapid and radical change over the next 2 or 3 decades, not just to our economy and lifestyles, but to the values, attitudes and aspirations on which they are based and depend - but no one even seems to be thinking about it; except me, at www.spaceship-earth.org. |