Goodbye brave world

Goodbye brave world, it was good while it lasted. Haven't we done well though, us, the human species.  With all our brain power and free will we've managed to last a couple of hundred thousand years.  I know it's a few hundred million less than those brainless mega-cattle ~ the dinosaurs ~ but we've certainly left our mark.  Some doing eh, we should be proud of ourselves!  But there's no use crying over spilled milk, or oil, or enriched uranium is there. Here's hoping the next lot do a better job than we have, seriously they couldn't do much worse.  Anyway, See you around somewhere, sometime.

As fossil fuels diminish, the scramble to preserve our way of life kicks up a gear to serve short term profits at the expense of global sustainability.  The more furious the efforts of Big Corporations to achieve their commercial objectives, the less likely the human race will survive in the medium term.  Preservation will fail.  To adapt or slow down the damage we're causing to preserve our existing way of life, is not enough.  If we have the will to survive, we as individuals, as communities, as inhabitants of this glorious planet must look to fundamentally change our ways.  The threat of Shell drilling in the Arctic is looming closer than ever but the movement against it grows stronger every day.  Join six Greenpeace activists as they cross the Pacific to speak for the Arctic.  Click to see where they are now.

© Rivenrod 2015