There is an elite class of people at the forefront of the anti climate change movement. They talk the talk about climate change, but do they walk the walk?
If someone truly believes in catastrophic climate change, and that humans are causing it - and that person happens to have the wealth, influence, voice and power to actually do something - then why would they not want to set the example for what needs to be done? An extravagant, materialistic, self indulgent, often hedonistic lifestyle, full of luxury and excess, does not set the example.
If not even 5 per cent of the people on earth share the extravagant lifestyle and excesses of many of those at the forefront of the anti climate change movement, Al Gore included, the planet would quickly run out of resources. It requires a lot of energy and resources, and creates a lot of pollution to fuel extravagant lifestyles.
Protection of the planet has to move far beyond talk into the realm of action and example.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Weaklings Of The World Continue to Seek their Hitlers
Humans, the most brutal species to ever walk the face of the earth, are seemingly incapable of learning from history.
Not that long ago, a weak, insecure man needed the Jew to hide behind. He needed the Jew to blame, to scapegoat, to hide all his personal flaws and deficiencies.
A nation rallied to his side. They believed that in their blind loyalty, in their hate, in their anger, in their rage, they found strength.
The terrible violence where hate leads left Europe in ruins. Over 50 million dead, with millions more wounded. Almost the entire Jewish population of European Jewry wiped out. Millions of others killed, wounded and made permanently disabled. Almost every person with a shred of decency in much of Europe was crushed.
And for what? To indulge the hate and bigotry of a weak, insecure, deeply flawed man and his deeply flawed followers.
It starts with the Jew, it starts with the scapegoat, but it never ends there.
It starts with words of hate. It starts with blame, scapegoating, accusations. It starts with placing the ills of the world at the feet of the scapegoat. Crush the scapegoat, the object of scorn and hate, and it will all be better is the imagined pathological mantra.
It is as if none of this has been leaned. The hate, the blaming, the scapegoating, is growing like a demon out of hell.
This time, there will be no coming back from the hell that people are determined to unleash. There were no assortment of nations armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons the last time. It was not the overcrowded, environmentally degraded trashed world then that it has now become.
This time, there will be no coming back for humanity from the hate and violence so many are determined to unleash.
Not that long ago, a weak, insecure man needed the Jew to hide behind. He needed the Jew to blame, to scapegoat, to hide all his personal flaws and deficiencies.
A nation rallied to his side. They believed that in their blind loyalty, in their hate, in their anger, in their rage, they found strength.
The terrible violence where hate leads left Europe in ruins. Over 50 million dead, with millions more wounded. Almost the entire Jewish population of European Jewry wiped out. Millions of others killed, wounded and made permanently disabled. Almost every person with a shred of decency in much of Europe was crushed.
And for what? To indulge the hate and bigotry of a weak, insecure, deeply flawed man and his deeply flawed followers.
It starts with the Jew, it starts with the scapegoat, but it never ends there.
It starts with words of hate. It starts with blame, scapegoating, accusations. It starts with placing the ills of the world at the feet of the scapegoat. Crush the scapegoat, the object of scorn and hate, and it will all be better is the imagined pathological mantra.
It is as if none of this has been leaned. The hate, the blaming, the scapegoating, is growing like a demon out of hell.
This time, there will be no coming back from the hell that people are determined to unleash. There were no assortment of nations armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons the last time. It was not the overcrowded, environmentally degraded trashed world then that it has now become.
This time, there will be no coming back for humanity from the hate and violence so many are determined to unleash.
Decades Old Perfect Storm Enabling Dog fighting And Animal Cruelty to Thrive
Talking about dog fighting and animal cruelty is a a good way to raise money and gain an audience without ever having to do anything. The advocacy to ensure public law enforcement responds appropriately to animal cruelty and dog fighting remains absent. A number of animal organizations continue to fall over themselves in their eagerness to present themselves to the public as the answer to animal cruelty.
Mothers that opposed drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations knew that they had to change the poor police response to domestic violence and drunk driving. They did not tell the public to call a mother to chase down a drunk driver, or to call an anti domestic violence organization to respond to domestic violence crimes. Instead, they advocated for an appropriate, widespread police response.
One person from an anti animal cruelty organization held seminars talking about dog fighting and animal cruelty, telling people to call 911 or her organization when they witnessed dog fighting and animal cruelty. She had already been informed that the police were ignoring and not responding appropriately to animal cruelty and dog fighting calls, with extremely few exceptions, and that her organization's humane investigators were providing dog fighters and animal abusers with a heads up opportunity to move their animals elsewhere after being paid a visit by a humane investigator.
Police departments, politicians and animal organizations are glad to join the talk band wagon regarding how horrible are dog fighting and animal cruelty. No one, not the public, not the media, not the politicians, are willing to challenge the charade. The perception continues that animal activists and animal organizations are the places to support and send money when it comes to animal abuse and dog fighting. Police departments get to continue doing little to nothing when it comes to these crimes. Some police departments and animal organizations field ineffective token police teams that are little more than an excuse for greater law enforcement to continue to do little to nothing. Notice how there are no special token forces responding to drunk driving and domestic violence. These crimes, just like animal cruelty and dog fighting, can happen anywhere, anytime, and only public law enforcement operating 24 hours a day, every day of the year has the ability to appropriately response. Animal cruelty and dog fighting, like any other crime of violence, should be responded to appropriately by widespread public law enforcement. Not by ineffective token police teams, not by animal organizations, and not by humane investigators. The only thing animal organizations should do - other than ensure police do their jobs when it comes to dog fighting and animal cruelty - is help police remove animals that need to be confiscated and to board the animals (if no space is available in a public animal shelter) until a court has made a ruling.
Why is it near impossible for the common occurring crimes of dog fighting and animal cruelty to finally be treated like other crimes by public law enforcement at large? The answer, assuming anyone is interested, is a story that needs to be told.
Mothers that opposed drunk driving and anti domestic violence organizations knew that they had to change the poor police response to domestic violence and drunk driving. They did not tell the public to call a mother to chase down a drunk driver, or to call an anti domestic violence organization to respond to domestic violence crimes. Instead, they advocated for an appropriate, widespread police response.
One person from an anti animal cruelty organization held seminars talking about dog fighting and animal cruelty, telling people to call 911 or her organization when they witnessed dog fighting and animal cruelty. She had already been informed that the police were ignoring and not responding appropriately to animal cruelty and dog fighting calls, with extremely few exceptions, and that her organization's humane investigators were providing dog fighters and animal abusers with a heads up opportunity to move their animals elsewhere after being paid a visit by a humane investigator.
Police departments, politicians and animal organizations are glad to join the talk band wagon regarding how horrible are dog fighting and animal cruelty. No one, not the public, not the media, not the politicians, are willing to challenge the charade. The perception continues that animal activists and animal organizations are the places to support and send money when it comes to animal abuse and dog fighting. Police departments get to continue doing little to nothing when it comes to these crimes. Some police departments and animal organizations field ineffective token police teams that are little more than an excuse for greater law enforcement to continue to do little to nothing. Notice how there are no special token forces responding to drunk driving and domestic violence. These crimes, just like animal cruelty and dog fighting, can happen anywhere, anytime, and only public law enforcement operating 24 hours a day, every day of the year has the ability to appropriately response. Animal cruelty and dog fighting, like any other crime of violence, should be responded to appropriately by widespread public law enforcement. Not by ineffective token police teams, not by animal organizations, and not by humane investigators. The only thing animal organizations should do - other than ensure police do their jobs when it comes to dog fighting and animal cruelty - is help police remove animals that need to be confiscated and to board the animals (if no space is available in a public animal shelter) until a court has made a ruling.
Why is it near impossible for the common occurring crimes of dog fighting and animal cruelty to finally be treated like other crimes by public law enforcement at large? The answer, assuming anyone is interested, is a story that needs to be told.
Friday, September 27, 2019
Trivializing Animal Cruelty
Equating humane euthanasia with animal cruelty trivializes real cruelty.
Euthanasia is an unfortunate reality, but not cruelty. What is even more unfortunate is the massive failure to protect animals from real cruelty.
In the no kill, pets are worth saving movement, far too often real animal cruelty is exploited, trivialized or ignored.
Euthanasia is an unfortunate reality, but not cruelty. What is even more unfortunate is the massive failure to protect animals from real cruelty.
In the no kill, pets are worth saving movement, far too often real animal cruelty is exploited, trivialized or ignored.
Plastic Pollution Disaster: Opportunity To Employ Disadvantaged People To Remove Plastic Trash
There is massive poverty in the world. There is a massive amount of plastic pollution. The cleanup portion of the plastic pollution disaster must vastly expand from volunteerism into large scale employment, in which disadvantaged people the world over are employed to cleanup coastlines and other areas from plastic pollution. In many places, people desperately need work and cannot afford to be volunteers. Plastic pollution needs to be removed from coastlines and other areas. Employing disadvantaged people to remove plastic pollution from coastlines and other areas fights poverty and plastic pollution at the same time. No serious problem can be adequately addressed on the cheap. Education is a serious need, so teachers are hired, supplemented at times by volunteers. No one expects education or healthcare needs to be addressed by volunteers.
Most plastic pollution: food wrappers, sachets, packaging materials, bags, personal care items, Styrofoam and so forth, have no value. All of it must be removed. A model based on paying poor people only for recyclables they collect keeps them underpaid and ensures that the non recyclable materials are not properly removed.
A model based on volunteer labor does not work in countries where people desperately need work. It is short lived and ineffective.
Plastic pollution cleanups are labor intensive and tedious. Plastic pollution is an enormous opportunity for disadvantaged people to receive steady employment, and for the environment to be cleaned. There is so much plastic already in the environment. It needs to be removed before it breaks down further into unrecoverable particles and pieces. The trillions upon trillions of plastic trash pieces already in the oceans and waters of the world, with millions upon millions of pounds and kilos added every day, ensures decades upon decades of work for people in need.
Does the will to truly address poverty and plastic pollution exist? Will plastic pollution be yet anther serious problem talked about, exploited, and never properly addressed? Plastic pollution is a rare opportunity for people in need to receive employment, and for the environment to be cleaned.
Most plastic pollution: food wrappers, sachets, packaging materials, bags, personal care items, Styrofoam and so forth, have no value. All of it must be removed. A model based on paying poor people only for recyclables they collect keeps them underpaid and ensures that the non recyclable materials are not properly removed.
A model based on volunteer labor does not work in countries where people desperately need work. It is short lived and ineffective.
Plastic pollution cleanups are labor intensive and tedious. Plastic pollution is an enormous opportunity for disadvantaged people to receive steady employment, and for the environment to be cleaned. There is so much plastic already in the environment. It needs to be removed before it breaks down further into unrecoverable particles and pieces. The trillions upon trillions of plastic trash pieces already in the oceans and waters of the world, with millions upon millions of pounds and kilos added every day, ensures decades upon decades of work for people in need.
Does the will to truly address poverty and plastic pollution exist? Will plastic pollution be yet anther serious problem talked about, exploited, and never properly addressed? Plastic pollution is a rare opportunity for people in need to receive employment, and for the environment to be cleaned.
Crashing Bird Populations: No Kill, Pets Are Worth Saving Vs. Birds
It is not enough that birds and other wildlife have lost much of their habitat, and as a result many species are threatened or near extinction.
Birds and other wildlife must contend with the domestic cat, a masterful predator and killer of birds and other animals. Many birds and other animals did not evolve with the domestic cat, and are ill equipped to defend themselves. People have allowed this skilled predator to unleash its killing ability on all corners of the world.
The remedy is simple but near impossible to achieve because of the human emotions involved. Keep cats inside. If the cat is a pet, keep it indoors. If it is feral, remove it from the outside. Outside cats do not fare well. Cold weather, heat, vehicles, sadistic people that enjoy harming animals inflict misery on many cats.
Outside cats are in harms way. Birds are in harms way from cats.
For the millionaires and billionaires supporting the pets are worth saving movement, knowing full well that colonies of outdoor cats are no ones pets, stop making birds and other wildlife suffer. They already face far too many threats and do not need cats on their list of threats. These people would rather see birds and other wildlife killed by outdoor cats rather than upset their "no kill" fiction. As long as dogs and cat are never humanely euthanized, their fate does not matter to many of the "no kill" people. Animal cruelty flourishes when humane euthanasia is equated with real cruelty.
Instead of trying to achieve the no kill fiction on the cheap by using outdoor spaces, let the millionaires and billionaires behind the every cat and dog must never be euthanized fictional movement spend their money where their mouths are. Let them buy their own indoor space where they can keep their cats. Why should birds, already with many species in decline, pay the price because no kill millionaires and billionaires want to "save" cats on the cheap?
Birds and other wildlife must contend with the domestic cat, a masterful predator and killer of birds and other animals. Many birds and other animals did not evolve with the domestic cat, and are ill equipped to defend themselves. People have allowed this skilled predator to unleash its killing ability on all corners of the world.
The remedy is simple but near impossible to achieve because of the human emotions involved. Keep cats inside. If the cat is a pet, keep it indoors. If it is feral, remove it from the outside. Outside cats do not fare well. Cold weather, heat, vehicles, sadistic people that enjoy harming animals inflict misery on many cats.
Outside cats are in harms way. Birds are in harms way from cats.
For the millionaires and billionaires supporting the pets are worth saving movement, knowing full well that colonies of outdoor cats are no ones pets, stop making birds and other wildlife suffer. They already face far too many threats and do not need cats on their list of threats. These people would rather see birds and other wildlife killed by outdoor cats rather than upset their "no kill" fiction. As long as dogs and cat are never humanely euthanized, their fate does not matter to many of the "no kill" people. Animal cruelty flourishes when humane euthanasia is equated with real cruelty.
Instead of trying to achieve the no kill fiction on the cheap by using outdoor spaces, let the millionaires and billionaires behind the every cat and dog must never be euthanized fictional movement spend their money where their mouths are. Let them buy their own indoor space where they can keep their cats. Why should birds, already with many species in decline, pay the price because no kill millionaires and billionaires want to "save" cats on the cheap?
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Crashing Bird Populations: Lawns Or Birds?
Recent news about bird populations declining by nearly a third in the United States should make people think twice about the future. More than likely, it will be passing news until the next report, perhaps not that far away, about a two thirds or more decline.
The well known threats to birds and reasons for their decline include habitat loss, domestic cats living or allowed outside, pesticides, herbicides, declines in certain insect populations, and more.
Anyone that owns a home, property or land can help birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Green grass lawns requires a large amount of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides that harms wildlife, rivers, lakes and oceans. Lawns can be put to far better use by growing trees and other plants that benefit birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Lawns and other spaces can be used to grow trees and other plants that provide food for people and wildlife, shelter and habitat for birds and other wildlife, while requiring fewer (or no) fertilizers and chemicals.
Jobs will be lost in conventional landscaping but gained in alternative landscaping. People and wildlife will be healthier. This will not stop the decline in bird populations in and of itself, but it will help birds.
The well known threats to birds and reasons for their decline include habitat loss, domestic cats living or allowed outside, pesticides, herbicides, declines in certain insect populations, and more.
Anyone that owns a home, property or land can help birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Green grass lawns requires a large amount of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides that harms wildlife, rivers, lakes and oceans. Lawns can be put to far better use by growing trees and other plants that benefit birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Lawns and other spaces can be used to grow trees and other plants that provide food for people and wildlife, shelter and habitat for birds and other wildlife, while requiring fewer (or no) fertilizers and chemicals.
Jobs will be lost in conventional landscaping but gained in alternative landscaping. People and wildlife will be healthier. This will not stop the decline in bird populations in and of itself, but it will help birds.
Thursday, September 19, 2019
Sitting On Wealth While The Amazon, Congo, Borneo,And Other Rain Forests Are Destroyed
Borneo is burning. The Amazon is burning. The Congo, out of sight, out of mind for many, is being destroyed. Other rain forests are being destroyed.
Money rules the world. It is an unfortunate reality. Money and greed are destroying these great rain forests, their wildlife and mankind's future.
Conservation interests must out spend agribusiness, logging, mining and others that are destroying the rain forests. Preservation of these great forests, upon which the future of mankind depends, requires money. It must become more financially important to preserve than to destroy.
Why are big money conservation, wildlife and animal welfare related organizations sitting on their billions of dollars while the world burns? What are they waiting for? What are the billionaires and multimillionaires that profess concern for the environment and that support these organizations waiting for?
A vast network of marine parks, rain forest and other reserves needs to be added to the inadequate number of existing reserves and sanctuaries. Money must be spent to ensure each preserve and sanctuary is adequately patrolled and protected.
Some of these organizations are explicit about spending donor money on preserving land. They selectively choose what land to protect, well aware of what they have chosen to ignore and not protect as they prioritize their organizational wealth over their professed land conservation mission. They own collectively billions of dollars in assets.
While rain forests continue to be destroyed, why are these organizations and individuals stockpiling their wealth? Are they waiting until there is little to nothing left to protect? Is their money more important than the wealth and health of the natural world, which they claim to care about, and which is collapsing before our eyes?
Money rules the world. It is an unfortunate reality. Money and greed are destroying these great rain forests, their wildlife and mankind's future.
Conservation interests must out spend agribusiness, logging, mining and others that are destroying the rain forests. Preservation of these great forests, upon which the future of mankind depends, requires money. It must become more financially important to preserve than to destroy.
Why are big money conservation, wildlife and animal welfare related organizations sitting on their billions of dollars while the world burns? What are they waiting for? What are the billionaires and multimillionaires that profess concern for the environment and that support these organizations waiting for?
A vast network of marine parks, rain forest and other reserves needs to be added to the inadequate number of existing reserves and sanctuaries. Money must be spent to ensure each preserve and sanctuary is adequately patrolled and protected.
Some of these organizations are explicit about spending donor money on preserving land. They selectively choose what land to protect, well aware of what they have chosen to ignore and not protect as they prioritize their organizational wealth over their professed land conservation mission. They own collectively billions of dollars in assets.
While rain forests continue to be destroyed, why are these organizations and individuals stockpiling their wealth? Are they waiting until there is little to nothing left to protect? Is their money more important than the wealth and health of the natural world, which they claim to care about, and which is collapsing before our eyes?
Netanyahu Must Go: New Leadership Needed In Israel
Israel faces many enemies that want nothing more than to kill Jews. But that does not mean Israelis must depend on a leader as though he is a crutch without whom they cannot walk or survive. Netanyahu has been in power long enough. No leader should be in power more than 8 years maximum. Leaders are not indispensable.
Israeli leaders must do everything they can to pursue peace - even in the face of the unrelenting Jew hate that is pervasive in far too much of the Islamic world, and supported by far too many in the west and elsewhere. It is time for Netanyahu to walk off the world stage. If he is found corrupt, then he must go to jail like anyone else. No one is above the law for democracy to succeed.
Israeli leaders must do everything they can to pursue peace - even in the face of the unrelenting Jew hate that is pervasive in far too much of the Islamic world, and supported by far too many in the west and elsewhere. It is time for Netanyahu to walk off the world stage. If he is found corrupt, then he must go to jail like anyone else. No one is above the law for democracy to succeed.
Picking On The Small Guy; Abuse Of Power In Russia
An eccentric Russian man critical of Putin and described as a shaman, was on his way walking from Siberia to Moscow. Authorities did not allow him to continue. He had already walked about a third of the way of the 5000 or so mile journey. News reports indicate he was arrested and will be criminally charged for an incident that allegedly occurred while on his journey. His supporters insist he was arrested on trumped up charges.
There are those that will rush to the defense of the multi billionaire and multimillionaire oligarchs that rule Russia. They will defend the strong, rich and powerful who are in no need of defense.
Leave this man alone. No matter the place, no matter the country, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech must be a universal right.
There are those that will rush to the defense of the multi billionaire and multimillionaire oligarchs that rule Russia. They will defend the strong, rich and powerful who are in no need of defense.
Leave this man alone. No matter the place, no matter the country, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech must be a universal right.
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Dumping Discarded Electronics And Hazardous Waste, And What Must Be Done
A government official that is a political hack, despite her high level position, explained why her country receives the phones, computers, laptops, and other electronic and technology products that Japan no longer wants. "It is a business, and it givers our people jobs", she explained.
She failed to add that it also gives cancer and other diseases to the workers involved in extracting the small amount of valuable materials inside of discarded technology products, and that her country already is incapable of properly disposing of almost all of its harmful waste products.
She had no answer regarding what happens to the discarded Japanese electronics and other discarded technology products after valuable materials are extracted from them. Here is the answer she would not provide - it goes into an improper landfill where its toxic materials will leech out into the environment, further contaminating the waters and lands of that country.
Is it any wonder that cancer rates have soared in recent decades?
The shipping of discarded toys, electronics, phones, computers, laptops, and so on from one country to another, particularly from developed countries to developing countries, must be outlawed.
Here is where the normally worthless United Nations, in cooperation with the multi billion dollar, normally worthless environmental, animal welfare and conservation movement can actually achieve something good.
People need jobs. Establish an international program where disadvantaged people are employed to remove plastic and other harmful waste from the environment. The people that lose their jobs from ending the toxic waste trade will then be employed in an internationally funded program to clean the environment, rather than contribute to its destruction. Those workers in the clean program will be properly equipped for the handling of waste. Right now, in places in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, developed countries dump their discarded computers, phones, electronics, toys, laptops, plastic, etc., causing cancer and other diseases for poor people, killing wildlife and domestic animals, and contaminating the environments of those countries.
Developed countries must be responsible for their own waste.
The government official already mentioned knows that a few of her fellow countrymen will get rich from having discarded toxic waste dumped into her country. She knows that this waste has a small amount of valuable material that will profit a few, perhaps herself included. She knows also that the extraction process necessary to remove the valuable materials exposes workers to all kinds of toxic substances. She knows that her country is ill equipped to properly dispose of the waste after whatever is valuable inside is removed. She knows that all of these electronics, cell phones, computers, laptops, toys and more will go into landfills in which their toxic materials will leech out into the environment.
She may think that she is not affected because neither she nor anyone in her family is doing the actual work, and therefore are not exposed to the toxic materials. She probably thinks that even when the toxic materials are burned or enter a landfill, she will not be affected because she does not live near the burn site or near the toxic landfill. Even after the toxic waste leeches into the groundwater, she probably thinks that as long as she drinks bottled water, she is safe.
Start a massive employment project in which disadvantaged people are employed to clean the environment.
Outlaw the transfer of discarded electronic waste, cell phones, laptops, computers, medical equipment, plastic, etc from developed countries to developing countries.
She failed to add that it also gives cancer and other diseases to the workers involved in extracting the small amount of valuable materials inside of discarded technology products, and that her country already is incapable of properly disposing of almost all of its harmful waste products.
She had no answer regarding what happens to the discarded Japanese electronics and other discarded technology products after valuable materials are extracted from them. Here is the answer she would not provide - it goes into an improper landfill where its toxic materials will leech out into the environment, further contaminating the waters and lands of that country.
Is it any wonder that cancer rates have soared in recent decades?
The shipping of discarded toys, electronics, phones, computers, laptops, and so on from one country to another, particularly from developed countries to developing countries, must be outlawed.
Here is where the normally worthless United Nations, in cooperation with the multi billion dollar, normally worthless environmental, animal welfare and conservation movement can actually achieve something good.
People need jobs. Establish an international program where disadvantaged people are employed to remove plastic and other harmful waste from the environment. The people that lose their jobs from ending the toxic waste trade will then be employed in an internationally funded program to clean the environment, rather than contribute to its destruction. Those workers in the clean program will be properly equipped for the handling of waste. Right now, in places in Africa, Asia and elsewhere, developed countries dump their discarded computers, phones, electronics, toys, laptops, plastic, etc., causing cancer and other diseases for poor people, killing wildlife and domestic animals, and contaminating the environments of those countries.
Developed countries must be responsible for their own waste.
The government official already mentioned knows that a few of her fellow countrymen will get rich from having discarded toxic waste dumped into her country. She knows that this waste has a small amount of valuable material that will profit a few, perhaps herself included. She knows also that the extraction process necessary to remove the valuable materials exposes workers to all kinds of toxic substances. She knows that her country is ill equipped to properly dispose of the waste after whatever is valuable inside is removed. She knows that all of these electronics, cell phones, computers, laptops, toys and more will go into landfills in which their toxic materials will leech out into the environment.
She may think that she is not affected because neither she nor anyone in her family is doing the actual work, and therefore are not exposed to the toxic materials. She probably thinks that even when the toxic materials are burned or enter a landfill, she will not be affected because she does not live near the burn site or near the toxic landfill. Even after the toxic waste leeches into the groundwater, she probably thinks that as long as she drinks bottled water, she is safe.
Start a massive employment project in which disadvantaged people are employed to clean the environment.
Outlaw the transfer of discarded electronic waste, cell phones, laptops, computers, medical equipment, plastic, etc from developed countries to developing countries.
Why Wealthy Nations Send Their Waste to Developing Countries, And What Must Be done
Why are developed nations sending containers filled with plastic and other waste to developing nations? Most developing nations are already drowning in their own plastic waste. Go to any supermarket or grocery store in a developing nation, and in it almost every food item and personal care item is made from some type of plastic or other oil based non biodegradable material. Snack and candy wrappers, chip bags, food packaging materials, toothpaste, shampoos, Styrofoam, yogurt and other food containers, toothbrushes, plastic bags, the list is endless.
Walk down the isles of any one of these stores, where everything may look clean and orderly, and then realize that after a single use for most items purchased, the wrappers and packaging materials will be around for virtually forever contaminating the environment. The non biodegradable material breaks down into smaller pieces that at some point can never be removed from the environment.
Almost all of this material is non recyclable. And yet recycling persists as the mythical answer to mankind's enormous plastic and other oil based non biodegradable waste problem.
If recycling works - which it does not, including because almost all plastic and other oil based materials mankind presently uses is not recyclable - then why are rich developed nations sending their waste to developing nations that are already overwhelmed with their own plastic waste?
This is not an argument against recycling. Recycle what can be recycled, but stop the illusion that recycling is the answer to the massive plastic waste problem that is destroying lands, coasts, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Sweden burns much of its plastic waste, which is far preferable to the open burning that takes place elsewhere. At least Sweden gets energy from its plastic waste and removes as much contaminants from the burning process as is possible with today's existing technologies. Sweden's controlled burning is also far preferable to the open dumping that takes place all over the world, in which millions upon millions of pounds of plastic enter into the oceans daily.
The deception must end that recycling of plastic means shipping plastic waste to developing countries. Shipping plastic to developing nations ill equipped to handle their own plastic problem is disingenuous, harmful and must become criminalized conduct.
Here is where the United Nations, a normally ineffective entity with a highly partisan agenda (ignore every brutal psychopathic bloodthirsty regime on the planet and focus only on Israel) can help. Outlaw and criminalize the shipping of waste from one country to another, unless the receiving country has been licensed to receive other country's waste because it has the infrastructure and technology to handle plastic waste, including its own. Few, if any countries will qualify, outside of Sweden.
So for now, either have all the plastic waste go to Sweden to be burned, assuming this is something Sweden wants, or have an international agreement that all plastic waste must be disposed of in its country of origin. No more waste dumping from the developed world into the developing world.
Walk down the isles of any one of these stores, where everything may look clean and orderly, and then realize that after a single use for most items purchased, the wrappers and packaging materials will be around for virtually forever contaminating the environment. The non biodegradable material breaks down into smaller pieces that at some point can never be removed from the environment.
Almost all of this material is non recyclable. And yet recycling persists as the mythical answer to mankind's enormous plastic and other oil based non biodegradable waste problem.
If recycling works - which it does not, including because almost all plastic and other oil based materials mankind presently uses is not recyclable - then why are rich developed nations sending their waste to developing nations that are already overwhelmed with their own plastic waste?
This is not an argument against recycling. Recycle what can be recycled, but stop the illusion that recycling is the answer to the massive plastic waste problem that is destroying lands, coasts, rivers, lakes and oceans.
Sweden burns much of its plastic waste, which is far preferable to the open burning that takes place elsewhere. At least Sweden gets energy from its plastic waste and removes as much contaminants from the burning process as is possible with today's existing technologies. Sweden's controlled burning is also far preferable to the open dumping that takes place all over the world, in which millions upon millions of pounds of plastic enter into the oceans daily.
The deception must end that recycling of plastic means shipping plastic waste to developing countries. Shipping plastic to developing nations ill equipped to handle their own plastic problem is disingenuous, harmful and must become criminalized conduct.
Here is where the United Nations, a normally ineffective entity with a highly partisan agenda (ignore every brutal psychopathic bloodthirsty regime on the planet and focus only on Israel) can help. Outlaw and criminalize the shipping of waste from one country to another, unless the receiving country has been licensed to receive other country's waste because it has the infrastructure and technology to handle plastic waste, including its own. Few, if any countries will qualify, outside of Sweden.
So for now, either have all the plastic waste go to Sweden to be burned, assuming this is something Sweden wants, or have an international agreement that all plastic waste must be disposed of in its country of origin. No more waste dumping from the developed world into the developing world.
Sunday, September 15, 2019
Domestic Animal Organizations That Have Jumped On The Wildlife Bandwagon
Certain animal organizations have made fortunes presenting themselves as the go to place when it comes to helping domestic animals and lessening animal cruelty. With the power of marketing and hype, these organizations thrive even though they are ineffective and at times harmful. Now they have involved themselves with wildlife, having realized that wildlife protection is a lucrative source of donor money.
Will they do for wildlife what they have done for domestic animals? Namely, little to nothing and worse.
In a world that is deteriorating environmentally, with many species facing extinction, many people and organizations are profiting by the power of slick marketing and hype on the backs of suffering animals. Many organizations and people involved with stopping animal cruelty and with conservation and wildlife protection are ineffective and only making matters worse.
Just as dog fighters have greater chances of getting struck by lightning than ever getting arrested, thanks to a number of animal organizations and animal activists and the lack of anything serious from law enforcement, so too will the environment and wildlife continue to be destroyed with minimal resistance as long as people and organizations exploit serious problems for their own gain.
Will they do for wildlife what they have done for domestic animals? Namely, little to nothing and worse.
In a world that is deteriorating environmentally, with many species facing extinction, many people and organizations are profiting by the power of slick marketing and hype on the backs of suffering animals. Many organizations and people involved with stopping animal cruelty and with conservation and wildlife protection are ineffective and only making matters worse.
Just as dog fighters have greater chances of getting struck by lightning than ever getting arrested, thanks to a number of animal organizations and animal activists and the lack of anything serious from law enforcement, so too will the environment and wildlife continue to be destroyed with minimal resistance as long as people and organizations exploit serious problems for their own gain.
Yahoo And Animal Activists Trivializing Animal Cruelty And Wildlife Destruction. Blaming Hunters And Kill Shelters
On September 13, 2019, Yahoo News posted an article entitled, "Julian Castro's Plan To Save the Animals." The article asserts that hunters and kill animal shelters are two of the threats that wildlife and domestic animals face, and that Julian Castro wants more no kill animal shelters and laws to protect animals.
There is an enormous amount of animal abuse and dog fighting in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The problem in the U.S. is not the lack of laws in regards to domestic animals, but the lack of enforcement of existing laws. It is more important for a number of animal organizations to keep the public believing that they are the answer to animal cruelty, instead of fighting for a widespread, meaningful police response to these crimes. Minimal enforcement of existing laws by token police forces and by ineffective humane investigators fielded by animal organizations have done nothing but help animal abusers and dog fighters.
A number of so called animal activists and animal organizations, and now Yahoo in this article, do not seem to understand the difference between animal cruelty and humane euthanasia. Licensed animal shelters that euthanize animals are not committing crimes. Humane euthanasia is not the same as what dog fighters do to dogs, and what many animal abusers do to animals. Lumping it all together has done nothing but trivialize animal cruelty. Euthanizing is an unfortunate reality, but that is far different than actual animal cruelty.
Lowering euthanasia rates may make people feel good, but it masks the true reality of what lower euthanasia rates entails. In one major city, for example, city euthanasia rates are lowered by ensuring that the number of animal control officers are kept low, and that fewer dogs and cats are removed from the streets. Dogs and cats die out of sight, out of mind, often slowly and painfully. In this way, the city and its so called animal activists can claim victory by a lowered euthanasia rate, when in fact far more animals died painfully out on the streets.
The childish thinking that every dog and cat adopted from a shelter is a rescue, as opposed to actually taking dogs and cats from arrested animal abusers- which rarely happens because of the lack of a widespread police response and from the exploitation of animal cruelty by certain animal organizations and animal activists - has ensured real animal cruelty and dog fighting continue to flourish.
The no kill movement has ensured the trivialization of real animal cruelty. It has contributed to overcrowding in many animal shelters, exposing dogs and cats to inhumane, filthy conditions. It has benefited animal hoarders, who often are at the forefront of do not kill anything (and instead let animals rot away in their often filthy beyond belief premises). No kill has ensured a minimal animal control response in many places, thus allowing dogs and cats to live and die painfully out on the streets.
There is no such thing as no kill. Cows, pigs, chickens, goats, lambs and more must be killed in order to feed dogs and cats. No kill has contributed to the lack of a serious response to real animal cruelty. No kill has contributed to weakened animal control efforts.
And this is to say nothing about where some of these so called no kill shelters get their animals, and how that has contributed to an abusive overseas puppy mill industry.
This world faces serious environmental problems that threaten our very survival. Whether dogs and cats in shelters get adopted or not have nothing to do with many of these serious environmental problems. If anything, American dogs and cats, huge consumers of meat, contribute to the mass slaughter of cows, pigs, and so forth, and to the environmental problems caused by the meat industry. The fecal matter of dogs and cats, often collected in plastic, certainly does not help the environment. No kill has nothing to do with helping the environment and wildlife.
There are not millions of capable people lining up to adopt more dogs and cats from shelters. The number of dogs and cats needing homes far exceeds the number of good homes. Many people that adopt dogs and cats from shelters should not own an animal. The no kill movement often puts emphasis on high adoption rates and too little emphasis on quality of adoptions and ensuring each adoption ends up in good hands.
In a world with mass poverty and serious environmental degradation, it is reasonable to ask if the billions of dollars spent on mass warehousing and sheltering dogs and cats in order to accommodate the no kill movement and in order to prevent euthanasia, could not be put to better use.
Are hunters one of the threats, as Yahoo asserts in its article? There are many people that hunt that are conservationists. Even if someone has a strong aversion to hunting, the fact is that legal hunting is legal. It is not poaching. Many hunters do everything they can to protect wild places. It is possible to oppose hunting, or not want anything to do with it, and still recognize that many wild places and their wildlife would not exist if not for the efforts of hunters and their organizations to preserve those places.
Every single day, millions of pounds of plastic pour into the oceans. Every day, millions of pounds of sewage, pesticides, fertilizer run off, heavy metals and more pour into rivers, lakes and oceans.The oceans are acidifying. This can mean the end of humanity as we know it. The world's rain forests are burning and being destroyed. We are losing the Amazon. The second biggest rain forest, the Congo, is also being lost, even though this is sadly ignored. The world has already lost most of the rain forests in Southeast Asia and elsewhere - with few at best fighting to preserve what little is left.
Yahoo; kill shelters and hunters are not the problem. The continued trivialization and exploitation of real cruelty and wildlife and environmental destruction are part of the problem.
There is an enormous amount of animal abuse and dog fighting in the United States and elsewhere in the world. The problem in the U.S. is not the lack of laws in regards to domestic animals, but the lack of enforcement of existing laws. It is more important for a number of animal organizations to keep the public believing that they are the answer to animal cruelty, instead of fighting for a widespread, meaningful police response to these crimes. Minimal enforcement of existing laws by token police forces and by ineffective humane investigators fielded by animal organizations have done nothing but help animal abusers and dog fighters.
A number of so called animal activists and animal organizations, and now Yahoo in this article, do not seem to understand the difference between animal cruelty and humane euthanasia. Licensed animal shelters that euthanize animals are not committing crimes. Humane euthanasia is not the same as what dog fighters do to dogs, and what many animal abusers do to animals. Lumping it all together has done nothing but trivialize animal cruelty. Euthanizing is an unfortunate reality, but that is far different than actual animal cruelty.
Lowering euthanasia rates may make people feel good, but it masks the true reality of what lower euthanasia rates entails. In one major city, for example, city euthanasia rates are lowered by ensuring that the number of animal control officers are kept low, and that fewer dogs and cats are removed from the streets. Dogs and cats die out of sight, out of mind, often slowly and painfully. In this way, the city and its so called animal activists can claim victory by a lowered euthanasia rate, when in fact far more animals died painfully out on the streets.
The childish thinking that every dog and cat adopted from a shelter is a rescue, as opposed to actually taking dogs and cats from arrested animal abusers- which rarely happens because of the lack of a widespread police response and from the exploitation of animal cruelty by certain animal organizations and animal activists - has ensured real animal cruelty and dog fighting continue to flourish.
The no kill movement has ensured the trivialization of real animal cruelty. It has contributed to overcrowding in many animal shelters, exposing dogs and cats to inhumane, filthy conditions. It has benefited animal hoarders, who often are at the forefront of do not kill anything (and instead let animals rot away in their often filthy beyond belief premises). No kill has ensured a minimal animal control response in many places, thus allowing dogs and cats to live and die painfully out on the streets.
There is no such thing as no kill. Cows, pigs, chickens, goats, lambs and more must be killed in order to feed dogs and cats. No kill has contributed to the lack of a serious response to real animal cruelty. No kill has contributed to weakened animal control efforts.
And this is to say nothing about where some of these so called no kill shelters get their animals, and how that has contributed to an abusive overseas puppy mill industry.
This world faces serious environmental problems that threaten our very survival. Whether dogs and cats in shelters get adopted or not have nothing to do with many of these serious environmental problems. If anything, American dogs and cats, huge consumers of meat, contribute to the mass slaughter of cows, pigs, and so forth, and to the environmental problems caused by the meat industry. The fecal matter of dogs and cats, often collected in plastic, certainly does not help the environment. No kill has nothing to do with helping the environment and wildlife.
There are not millions of capable people lining up to adopt more dogs and cats from shelters. The number of dogs and cats needing homes far exceeds the number of good homes. Many people that adopt dogs and cats from shelters should not own an animal. The no kill movement often puts emphasis on high adoption rates and too little emphasis on quality of adoptions and ensuring each adoption ends up in good hands.
In a world with mass poverty and serious environmental degradation, it is reasonable to ask if the billions of dollars spent on mass warehousing and sheltering dogs and cats in order to accommodate the no kill movement and in order to prevent euthanasia, could not be put to better use.
Are hunters one of the threats, as Yahoo asserts in its article? There are many people that hunt that are conservationists. Even if someone has a strong aversion to hunting, the fact is that legal hunting is legal. It is not poaching. Many hunters do everything they can to protect wild places. It is possible to oppose hunting, or not want anything to do with it, and still recognize that many wild places and their wildlife would not exist if not for the efforts of hunters and their organizations to preserve those places.
Every single day, millions of pounds of plastic pour into the oceans. Every day, millions of pounds of sewage, pesticides, fertilizer run off, heavy metals and more pour into rivers, lakes and oceans.The oceans are acidifying. This can mean the end of humanity as we know it. The world's rain forests are burning and being destroyed. We are losing the Amazon. The second biggest rain forest, the Congo, is also being lost, even though this is sadly ignored. The world has already lost most of the rain forests in Southeast Asia and elsewhere - with few at best fighting to preserve what little is left.
Yahoo; kill shelters and hunters are not the problem. The continued trivialization and exploitation of real cruelty and wildlife and environmental destruction are part of the problem.
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Organizations That Benefit Dog fighters, Animal Abusers, Rain Forest, Ocean And Wildlife Destruction
Chapter One: Mindless Conformity And The Need to Mindlessly Belong.
When it comes to charities and other organizations claiming to be for the public good, many of them remain ineffective. The need to feel good and to conform with group mindset is more important than efficacy for many of their followers.
When it comes to animal cruelty and dog fighting, there continues to be a minimal police response and a maximum ineffective response by exploitative animal organizations and worthless police token teams, all of which are to the detriment of animals and people. Crimes, all crimes, belong in the hands of public law enforcement. Decades ago I tried to expose how widespread and common are dog fighting and animal cruelty, and how things will never change for the better as long as these crimes continue to be exploited by animal organizations and are minimally responded to by public law enforcement. Imagine if drunk driving and domestic violence were not widely responded to by public law enforcement, and instead were responded to by token police teams and by private organizations. There would be an explosion of those crimes, just as there is for animal cruelty and dog fighting.
All I received in return is derision; kill the messenger, and watch as certain individuals and organizations make fortunes off the backs of suffering animals.
A number of animal organizations presented themselves (and continue to do so) as being concerned about animal cruelty. Give them donations, they market themselves, and then abused animals are helped. No one had the guts, the decency, to stand up and question their efficacy. Talking about a problem and showing concern for a problem is not the same as actually doing something effective. Likewise, having a program to address a problem is utterly meaningless, even harmful, in the absence of scrutiny and accountability. Unfortunately, feel goodness, not efficacy is the standard.
Fast forward decades later. Practically no one gets arrested for dog fighting. Instead, there are worthless token police teams and animal cruelty investigators fielded by exploitative animal organizations instead of a widespread, meaningful police response. There are also a number of organizations and individuals superb at displays of concern and marketing hype that never get held to task to ever do anything of substance. Think this wrong? Facts do not lie. Practically no one ever gets arrested for dog fighting, and few get arrested for animal cruelty in relation to how widespread and common are these crimes. A dog fighter has a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than ever getting arrested for dog fighting.
And many so called animal lovers, more concerned with feeling good than challenging this pathology, continue to turn a blind eye.
When it comes to conservation, and wildlife protection, a number of conservation, animal welfare and wildlife organizations have become filthy rich marketing themselves as the go to source for helping the environment and wildlife. They have grown rich and famous while wildlife, flora and fauna have greatly diminished. It is easy to point out problems and offer weak and fake solutions as a way of fund raising and to gain more converts and donors. Accountability and critical scrutiny of what these organizations actually do and their efficacy is lacking. Too many people want nothing more than to feel good, not rock boats, and live with illusions rather than face unpleasant realities.
A certain rain forest and its highly endangered wildlife were destroyed. A number of conservation and wildlife organizations ignored the pleas for help, or promised help and did nothing. Talking the talk is different than walking the walk. These organizations are good at pointing out problems, but when it comes to actually doing something effective, no one questions them or holds their feet to the fire.
I cannot, as a man with a voice never listened to, do anything about the rain forests burning, coral reefs disappearing, dog fighting, animal cruelty and much more. But I can directly employ small numbers of people in need to remove plastic pollution from coastlines and other areas. But even this effort will go nowhere as long as people choose feeling good over efficacy. A small number of people and organizations will make fortunes from plastic pollution, the problem will only get worse, and in the end, what should have been done will never get done.
None of the above has to be this way it is. But nothing will change as long as people let emotion prevail - choosing feel goodness and mindless conformity over critical thought and concern for efficacy.
When it comes to charities and other organizations claiming to be for the public good, many of them remain ineffective. The need to feel good and to conform with group mindset is more important than efficacy for many of their followers.
When it comes to animal cruelty and dog fighting, there continues to be a minimal police response and a maximum ineffective response by exploitative animal organizations and worthless police token teams, all of which are to the detriment of animals and people. Crimes, all crimes, belong in the hands of public law enforcement. Decades ago I tried to expose how widespread and common are dog fighting and animal cruelty, and how things will never change for the better as long as these crimes continue to be exploited by animal organizations and are minimally responded to by public law enforcement. Imagine if drunk driving and domestic violence were not widely responded to by public law enforcement, and instead were responded to by token police teams and by private organizations. There would be an explosion of those crimes, just as there is for animal cruelty and dog fighting.
All I received in return is derision; kill the messenger, and watch as certain individuals and organizations make fortunes off the backs of suffering animals.
A number of animal organizations presented themselves (and continue to do so) as being concerned about animal cruelty. Give them donations, they market themselves, and then abused animals are helped. No one had the guts, the decency, to stand up and question their efficacy. Talking about a problem and showing concern for a problem is not the same as actually doing something effective. Likewise, having a program to address a problem is utterly meaningless, even harmful, in the absence of scrutiny and accountability. Unfortunately, feel goodness, not efficacy is the standard.
Fast forward decades later. Practically no one gets arrested for dog fighting. Instead, there are worthless token police teams and animal cruelty investigators fielded by exploitative animal organizations instead of a widespread, meaningful police response. There are also a number of organizations and individuals superb at displays of concern and marketing hype that never get held to task to ever do anything of substance. Think this wrong? Facts do not lie. Practically no one ever gets arrested for dog fighting, and few get arrested for animal cruelty in relation to how widespread and common are these crimes. A dog fighter has a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than ever getting arrested for dog fighting.
And many so called animal lovers, more concerned with feeling good than challenging this pathology, continue to turn a blind eye.
When it comes to conservation, and wildlife protection, a number of conservation, animal welfare and wildlife organizations have become filthy rich marketing themselves as the go to source for helping the environment and wildlife. They have grown rich and famous while wildlife, flora and fauna have greatly diminished. It is easy to point out problems and offer weak and fake solutions as a way of fund raising and to gain more converts and donors. Accountability and critical scrutiny of what these organizations actually do and their efficacy is lacking. Too many people want nothing more than to feel good, not rock boats, and live with illusions rather than face unpleasant realities.
A certain rain forest and its highly endangered wildlife were destroyed. A number of conservation and wildlife organizations ignored the pleas for help, or promised help and did nothing. Talking the talk is different than walking the walk. These organizations are good at pointing out problems, but when it comes to actually doing something effective, no one questions them or holds their feet to the fire.
I cannot, as a man with a voice never listened to, do anything about the rain forests burning, coral reefs disappearing, dog fighting, animal cruelty and much more. But I can directly employ small numbers of people in need to remove plastic pollution from coastlines and other areas. But even this effort will go nowhere as long as people choose feeling good over efficacy. A small number of people and organizations will make fortunes from plastic pollution, the problem will only get worse, and in the end, what should have been done will never get done.
None of the above has to be this way it is. But nothing will change as long as people let emotion prevail - choosing feel goodness and mindless conformity over critical thought and concern for efficacy.
Monday, September 9, 2019
Slaves To Religion: Mankind's Often Ungodly Invention
Religions that insist only their way is the right way and that only their so called holy books are the true word of god merits challenging. These religions protect and shield themselves from criticism, some more aggressively than others.
Rejecting religion does not make one an atheist. Even if someone is an atheist, it is still their right to criticize religion. Take away the ability to criticize religion, and then all that are left are mindless worshipers.
Humans have free will. We are not meant to be slaves, and we are not meant to be slaves to a religion.
There is no religion on the face of this planet that is the right religion for all of humanity. Before the aggressive, imperialistic expansion of certain religions that insist only their way is the right way, and that all those that disagree must be punished, in this life or the next or both, there were thousands of different religions in this world. Thousands of those religions, the followers of those religions and their cultures have been destroyed. We are left now with a few monolithic religions in which one in particular has far too many adherents trying to expand the religion through the use of violence and terror.
Freedom of religion includes freedom to reject religion and to deny the claims of any religion that it speaks for God, or that it is the true word of God.
Read any religions holy books, which many insist is the direct word of God, and in it one will find flaws, inconsistencies, and the complete lack of awareness of cultures and people that exist outside of a defined geographical area. Why is middle east history or the history of any area more important than the history of the people that lived in the Amazon, the Congo, or in many other places of the world?
All of the faiths that originated in the middle east were completely unaware of the existence of other peoples in the world living in the Amazon, the Congo, and in many other places. They were unaware, despite claims of being the religion for the whole world, because they are instead parochial religions that happened to have spread across the world, often by force, coercion and violence.
Religious coercion, force, bigotry and violence continues to this day. Far too many people are afraid to admit it or to stand up against it out of fear or out of fear of offending someone.
Too often, elevating a clergy class of people to god like status has opened the door to abuse, sexual and otherwise. Clergy should be humble and kind. They should not be given undue power and prestige, where evil people are protected and can get away with pedophilia and other crimes. No religion should protect pedophiles or be a sanctuary for pedophiles.
No religion should be a sanctuary for hate filled psychopaths.
We live in a day and age in which humanity is threatened with extinction not only by our nuclear weapons and their proliferation, but also by the enormous environmental harm that we have caused. Our oceans are filled with plastics, harmful pesticides and other chemicals, heavy metals, fecal matter and more. Our rain forests are burning and disappearing before our eyes. Our coral reefs are facing a mass extinction. Millions of species face extinction. The biodiversity that keeps intact the thread of life is disappearing.
In spite of all these challenges that threaten our very existence as a species, millions, even billions of people are being indoctrinated to mindlessly follow religion, and far too often, to resort to violence in order to spread religion, or to silence its critics.
Religion will not save humanity. Religion will hasten our extinction if we keep pandering to its alleged sanctity and refuse to criticize and open our eyes to its destructiveness when it promotes hatred, intolerance, bigotry, criminality, terror and violence.
When religion uplifts, helps people to be kinder, more compassionate, it is a force of good. When religion helps people to be narrow minded, hate filled bigots believing they speak on behalf of God, then it is a harmful, destructive force.
Humanity must make a choice. What is more important? Protecting religion from criticism, or protecting our environment and ourselves? We need to stop the blind acceptance of having more children indoctrinated to be mindless slaves to religion, where they no longer think for themselves, and in which they can easily be turned into human missiles programmed to kill.
Rejecting religion does not make one an atheist. Even if someone is an atheist, it is still their right to criticize religion. Take away the ability to criticize religion, and then all that are left are mindless worshipers.
Humans have free will. We are not meant to be slaves, and we are not meant to be slaves to a religion.
There is no religion on the face of this planet that is the right religion for all of humanity. Before the aggressive, imperialistic expansion of certain religions that insist only their way is the right way, and that all those that disagree must be punished, in this life or the next or both, there were thousands of different religions in this world. Thousands of those religions, the followers of those religions and their cultures have been destroyed. We are left now with a few monolithic religions in which one in particular has far too many adherents trying to expand the religion through the use of violence and terror.
Freedom of religion includes freedom to reject religion and to deny the claims of any religion that it speaks for God, or that it is the true word of God.
Read any religions holy books, which many insist is the direct word of God, and in it one will find flaws, inconsistencies, and the complete lack of awareness of cultures and people that exist outside of a defined geographical area. Why is middle east history or the history of any area more important than the history of the people that lived in the Amazon, the Congo, or in many other places of the world?
All of the faiths that originated in the middle east were completely unaware of the existence of other peoples in the world living in the Amazon, the Congo, and in many other places. They were unaware, despite claims of being the religion for the whole world, because they are instead parochial religions that happened to have spread across the world, often by force, coercion and violence.
Religious coercion, force, bigotry and violence continues to this day. Far too many people are afraid to admit it or to stand up against it out of fear or out of fear of offending someone.
Too often, elevating a clergy class of people to god like status has opened the door to abuse, sexual and otherwise. Clergy should be humble and kind. They should not be given undue power and prestige, where evil people are protected and can get away with pedophilia and other crimes. No religion should protect pedophiles or be a sanctuary for pedophiles.
No religion should be a sanctuary for hate filled psychopaths.
We live in a day and age in which humanity is threatened with extinction not only by our nuclear weapons and their proliferation, but also by the enormous environmental harm that we have caused. Our oceans are filled with plastics, harmful pesticides and other chemicals, heavy metals, fecal matter and more. Our rain forests are burning and disappearing before our eyes. Our coral reefs are facing a mass extinction. Millions of species face extinction. The biodiversity that keeps intact the thread of life is disappearing.
In spite of all these challenges that threaten our very existence as a species, millions, even billions of people are being indoctrinated to mindlessly follow religion, and far too often, to resort to violence in order to spread religion, or to silence its critics.
Religion will not save humanity. Religion will hasten our extinction if we keep pandering to its alleged sanctity and refuse to criticize and open our eyes to its destructiveness when it promotes hatred, intolerance, bigotry, criminality, terror and violence.
When religion uplifts, helps people to be kinder, more compassionate, it is a force of good. When religion helps people to be narrow minded, hate filled bigots believing they speak on behalf of God, then it is a harmful, destructive force.
Humanity must make a choice. What is more important? Protecting religion from criticism, or protecting our environment and ourselves? We need to stop the blind acceptance of having more children indoctrinated to be mindless slaves to religion, where they no longer think for themselves, and in which they can easily be turned into human missiles programmed to kill.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Money, Guns, Bombs, Wealth, Religion And A Trashed, Ruined Planet
All the wealth people think they have means nothing compared to what mankind has collectively lost. From time immemorial, the oceans have been mankind's bounty. We have proceeded to trash the hell out of them, turning oceans into sewers. Filled with trash, pesticides, fecal matter, agricultural runoff, lawn runoff as people foolishly pursue perfect lawns, and much more. We have loaded the oceans with plastic and other non biodegradable contaminants. The more the oceans are trashed, destroyed and polluted, the more they are filled with plastic, the more they are acidified; the poorer we all become. The more we lose rain forests, coral reefs, biodiversity and more, the greater our impoverishment. The stock market may make us think we are wealthy. Guns and bombs may make us think we are powerful. Blind devotion to some religion and constant prayer to a God may make us feel protected. But none of this is true. We were given a planet to protect and nurture. Instead, we developed warped notions of power, wealth, and prestige. We are destroying our oceans and lands and are too blind, too selfish, too self absorbed to recognize what we our doing.
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