To: letters@guardian.co.uk
Re:
“End of the world nigh - it's official” Ha, Ha.
Date: Fri,
14 February 2003

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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.