As the world’s populations witness the ongoing farce and unnecessary deaths that is the U.K. and U.S. responses to the pandemic; they see two countries whose rulers are totally incompetent, bombastic, entirely ego-centred and without a clue in the world. Their egotistical traits and their greed has directly resulted in thousands more human deaths than ever needed to occur in this pandemic.
The entire Washington system- Democrat or Republican is now hell-bent on demonising China. China, the cause ( supposedly deliberately if we were to believe that thug and inveterate liar, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo), of the COVID-19 global pandemic. One of the more brilliant (crazed) theories by the Washington swamp is that information to the world on pandemic and the epidemic epicentre in Wuhan China was delayed so that China could corner the market on COVID-19 masks and PPE equipment!
They see those two regimes, The U.S. and The U.K., whose only apparent interest is maintaining their disintegrating economies (and subduing countries who do not toe the U.S. line on all matters) while their health systems teeter on the verge of collapse, in contrast to those ‘authoritarian” and other more democratic governments, who have prioritised the safety and health of all their populations.
No wonder then, that there is a desperate need for the United States to try and re-assert itself as ‘world leader’ and master of the universe in the face of governments who share proved demonstrably more agile, smarter and more compassionate to the needs of their populations. The bully-boy of the globe is under threat: from within and without. Secretary of State Pompeo therefore exemplifies perfectly what America stands for- and what it has always stood for: greed, violence and lies. The new trade alliance with the U.K. one of the desperate last gasp attempts to maintain some hegemony in the world .
In places like New Zealand and other countries high on the ‘bucket list’ for wealthy people to visit , overseas tourism has slumped dramatically since the pandemic. Tourism operators and regulators are now calling for big media campaigns to artificially promote local tourism. It does beg the question as to why our society has to rely on manipulated media -driven purposeless consumption to survive.
Tourism is one of the primary human activities which are rapidly degrading our planet till it is no longer live-able for us or any other known species. Its reliance on massive air traffic flows and consequent very high CO2 production through long-haul jet plane engines, its reliance on building non-organic infrastructure like roads, hotels, tracks through nature and many other acts of ‘progress’, in natural environments and consequent human traffic, which rapidly degrade the lives of other species we are so desperate to see, are just two of the massively environmentally destructive activities of tourism that global human populations has been sold as a ‘must-have’ over the past 30 years.
It has to stop. It will stop, but surely better it is that we plan now for job transfers to essential and non-environmentally destructive activities, before we face a new inevitable likely larger shock to our crazy economic system, and consequently even more massive human dislocation, trauma and death . Unemployment deals a savage blow to people’s sense of hope and a bright future; let alone the impact it can have on access to food and health services . We know that global environmental collapse, and consequent complete economic collapse, is going to happen unless we shift our focus to providing just the essentials for human beings and stop destroying our world for nothing.
New cycle lanes or more public transport in our urban environments are lovely things to have while we speed ever more rapidly to environmental disaster – but they don’t go anywhere near the need for change required to turn our economic system around into something sustainable that values all living things.
Our bizarre and psychotic magical belief in the ‘invisible hand ‘ of capitalism over the past 100 years to create wealth and happiness for all humans ( but not other species we rely on in this world for our survival)has created this appallingly stupid and callous human centric world system we live in; where other species become ‘products’ for our consumption; where the living and beautiful natural environment that surrounds us is simply there for us to make ‘productive’ by poisoning it with pesticides and fertilizers, or sealing it over with concrete and tar; where we do not think for a moment about the massive destruction of the lives of other species we destroy every day in our quest for ‘progress’- all those animals who we now know for certain have fears and thoughts and emotions and who we so callously and cruelly inflict pain and loss on every day.
We do not need this ‘progress’ that the media and business have propagandized into our hearts and minds for so long : we can in fact live more productive and contented lives being more attuned to the living world of which we are inextricably part of- but we have to change now!
Relevant Links
Human Crises & Saving the Planet-New Antarctica
Why It’s Wrong (and Racist) to Blame Covid-19 on Chinese ‘Wet Markets’
COVID-19: Complicit in Millions of Deaths Since 1945, UK Govt Won’t Face Justice Over Virus
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/get-ready-for-the-next-game-changer-the-digital-yuan/
New Antarctica 