This World We Share

Worrying and ranting is all I seem to be doing these days. The rants usually start with "*ç%&/+! Can't these morons see that..." and are usually directed at decision makers and voters and the uncritical media whom I deem to be co-responsible for this world going down the drain. What's up with CEOs, presidents and ministers taking risks - like sanctioning unsafe deep sea drilling projects or building badly run nuclear power plants in unsafe areas - that affect us all and then claiming that they will take responsibility in case something goes wrong. Can we use their bodies to stuff the hole in case a fail safe fails and we need to make sure than the ocean is not too poisoned (again) or that the radiation doesn't kill us all?

We're aware that we can't expect to suddenly act intelligently when warned that their actions have or could have negative consequences for all. If people believe that they need an off-roader they will continue to believe they do and if people want to believe that the industrial breeding and slaughter of animals has no negative influence on the environment, the economy and humanity, a little left-wing activism will hardly convince them of the contrary.

But when one catastrophe follows the other and we have pretty conclusive evidence that taking certain risks can have devastating effects, wouldn't that be the point where the CEOs and ministers are told to shut up and stop pretending they don't have to share the blame? Wouldn't that be the point where we all cry out, especially us gals, and say:

"Hey, you want me to reproduce and create little human beings to live in this world? Then why don't you see that they'll have air to breath, water to drink and not more than the usual amount of fingers and heads? I'm thrilled you get a big bonus at the end of the year because your lobbying efforts have caused the government to bend over once again for the wishes of stockholders, but this is my world as much as it is yours, and I'd appreciate if you didn't crap all over it."

You can do that by voting and seeing that economic interests - which translates into the interests of a few people at the top who live by the motto "get rich and kill trying" and their shareholders - do not govern us by cutting back on regulations. The interests of the few, fostered by right-wing republicanism, will finally amount to the end of us all. And I am really not fine with that.

P.S. I think women should strike and stop reproducing -and by that I mean giving birth, not sex - until we are promised that our kids are gonna be alright. And it really doesn't look it at the moment. Could be effective...

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