“losing your way”
kora_ra_123 - stock.adobe.com (Icon)There is probably a phrase for “losing your way” in every language in the world. Setting a spatial goal and achieving it has probably been an archaic matter since cavemen. The linguistic transfer to idealistic goals only came later.
Nowadays, in the age of anti-Social Media and Artificial Intelligence, this focus on survival still applies. In 2025, however, we unfortunately have to realise that almost all of media-covered) humankind has lost its way. A few old, stupid, religiously obsessed, power-greedy and money-hungry men have shifted the focus from the urgent repair of our spaceship Earth to atavistic wars that were long considered obsolete. Now the focus is no longer on protecting the biosphere, but on invest-ing in deadly weapons. I’m sure there’s an expression for this in every language in the world: it sucks!
Green Deal
What will be written in the history books about Mr Putin and Mr Trump in the future?
I would wager the following: ‘In the first half of the 21th century, these two elderly individuals were responsible for the catastrophic failure of the world’s leaders to focus on imminent climate change. Their backward-looking and self-serving policies were the cause of terrible damage to the biosphere.
Countless ecosystems have been irreversibly destroyed and many millions of people have died as a result.’ Today, it is completely open what will be written about Europe in this context. Either nothing at all, or: ‘Due to considerable pressure, the European states finally decided to go further.
With the realisation of the Green Deal, the United States of Europe became a shining example of responsible policy for a liveable future on this planet.’
The really very last word
One thing has to be said: there is a lot going on politically in the northern hemisphere.
Most of the governments from the coronavirus years in the democracies have now actually been replaced or are as good as replaced. Whether the new ones will be better remains to be seen. But, as we all know, there is magic in every new beginning – and the people under the war-mongering would-be tsar, the crocodile in the Middle Kingdom or the fat dictator in the starving part of Korea can only dream of this.
It’s just a pity that these and other obscurantists are holding us back from the two huge challenges of this century: the fight against climate catastrophe and the global decline in biodiversity. Is anyone else besides us drumming up support for the biologisation of our ‘civilisations’? Does really everything have to get absolutely bad before it can get better?