Call for a REVOLUTION …AN EVERGREEN REVOLUTION
Each day passes we read in our newspapers, visually watch on TV, hear on our car radio, listen to the preaching of the politicians exhorting about OIL..Petroleum ….and our unquenching dependence and need for it. Costly wars both in human life and national debt have recently been fought for it. We hear of goliath corporations in the business control budgets and earn profits greater than many nations GDP… But at the same time have we all been distracted, is this all been a snow job? What of our other, less discussed, but more serious needs? Like urgent requirements for sustaining the expanding world population? When did shortage of water, food, devastating the oceans and forests make the TV headline news or spiel from our politicians lips, be addressed in government forums? In the United States there are NO money laden powerful lobbies for water, SAVING marine life, protecting not cutting forests, expanding food supply, controlling carbon dioxide. WE NEED TO WAKE UP.
Our world is quickly running out of time to ensure there will be enough food, water, power, energy to sustain the needs of the rapidly increasing population. According to a recent United Nations report failure of the world politicians to address this issue will send 3 BILLION people into poverty.
The world population is scheduled to increase to 9 NINE BILLION in 28 years or by 2040. The population recently turned the 7 SEVEN BILLION number. We don’t have to wait until 2040 to feel the effects, by 2030 our wold will need at least 50 FIFTY per cent more food. The population will require 30% more water, and 45% more energy. (UN estimates)
What are these world politicians doing to address these monumental tasks? Not very much is the answer. We are suffering from a lack of political will and direction. Guilty are most of the industrial countries lead by the United States, the quickly growing waking economies, China India, and those countries tightly controlled by self serving powerfully rich.
We need to learn that since 2000 there are 20 million more undernourished people already. We have destroyed forests after forests each year the size of a country. We have already exploited 85 EIGHTY FIVE percent of all fish stocks, and in some cases depleted the stock completely.
There has been “talk” about the carbon dioxide emissions, much chatter but of little avail. As a result they have risen 38 percent from 1990 to 2010!!..The result the risk of rising sea levels, and more extreme violent weather for the future.
In June this year, in Brazil, the world forum of politicians and scientists meet once more at a summit to discuss and consider these concerns. Governments are urged to accept the problem and set sustainable development goals which MUST be achieved. They must at least double food, energy, water productivity. They must reduce the use and waste of our natural resources and avoid further biodiversity losses.
We need an EVERGREEN REVOLUTION…..NOW
