Friday 12 January 2024

For what it's worth

Sorry for the off-topic post but I can't stay focused when I can see that everything is connected. For what ever my tiny opinion is worth I do think that the fate of the natural world will be decided by a system of global governance that humanity co-evolves into. Maybe it's not very convincing to say that nature conservation is linked to the Israel-Gaza war but what that crisis highlights is that there is no international police force or army that the people of Gaza can call to help them. Global society is basically an anarchy and that anarchy leads to a race to the bottom, an economic and technological arms race of superpowers and lesser powers fighting for dominance. There are no governing structures that maintains an order (particularly in the control of murder)  in the same way a state entity does and the closest thing we have to a world government is the UN which is overall a toothless, target setting talking shop and gravy train. 

Only necessity i.e. global breakdown and chaos can create the necessary conditions for a post-Capitalist system that distributes wealth and power in a more equitable fashion and also protects nature which is the foundation to our species survival.

Maybe the situation in Israel will facilitate that global breakdown. At the moment there seems to be a growing outrage at the shameless massacre of children that the IDF are perpetrating.  If the far right Zionist Israeli government have pushed things too far which makes it impossible for their allies to keep defending their military strategy that involves child massacre, they could open a fault line between the century old US-Israel-Europe alliance and we could start to see traditional geopolitical superstructures disintegrating. For what it's worth I don't think what Israel is doing is overall morally defendable but I also think that Hamas and the Arabs would do the same or worse to Israel if only they could so I'm certainly not taking sides- just noting that chaos reigns when there is no global government that can split these two fighting factions apart.  If the Ukraine situation escalates too we really could be on the brink of global meltdown in 2024. Certainly worth taking some precautions and insurances.  

There will be nothing pleasant for anyone in a global breakdown and it is certainly nothing to celebrate but after a necessary horrifying and painful period of history the world could end up in the place it needs to get to for planetary ecosystems, the climate and humanity to stabilise. Seems like there is no other way but the most difficult way.   
    

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