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The cartoon by Peter Brookes in today's London
Times, "In the Club", says it all:
 The fact is that we ARE on the road of nuclear proliferation, which will INEVITABLY lead, sooner or later, to nuclear strikes and wars - a succession of them, if we continue along it, ending perhaps in a final global conflagration.
This is where we ARE heading.
We can either face up to it, or remain in denial, as we also are
in respect to the INHERENT non-sustainability of our rabid,
growth-dependent economy and grossly materialist lifestyles (and
lifestyle aspirations).
The reason we are in denial of
the two biggest threats to human survival is that they both stem
from our own animal nature, which not just religious literalists
are loath to acknowledge and face up to. Our entire socio-economic
order (the state, the economy, virtually everything) is deeply
rooted in our animal nature - unsurprisingly, in view of what
Charles Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human origins.
Unless we face up to this root
cause of our problems and put our minds, hearts and hands to
creating an alternative socio-economic order, rooted in our more
enlightened, human nature, we will not solve them, but soon be off
to join the dinosaurs.
More on my homepage at
http://www.spaceship-earth.org
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