Stopping War, Terrorism, Global Warming Is So Much Bullshit

Jerome Irwin

Everyone in the world knows – from the richest man or woman down to the poorest – that the lip service currently being paid to try to: stop war; terrorism; global warming; end world hunger and poverty; resolve the refugee crisis; distribute the wealth between the developed and developing countries, or; equalize the disparity between the 1% Have’s & 99% Haven-Not’s; is so much unmitigated bullshit.

The current effort to quell war in the Middle East, stop the World War of Terror, end Global Warming or solve the Refugee Crisis is simply so many X pounds of Blivit in a Y pound bag! The French would call it Merde! The Germans – Sceisse! The Chinese – Shi pijuan! The Spanish – Caca! The Italians Poppa! The Indians – Poonami! The Russians – Bychit! Others might simply use slang words like: stink pickles, arse biscuits, bull babbage or horse pucky to describe all the endless forked-tongued, double-talk, nonsensical, ass-backwards, babble used in the world at every United Nation convention and every session of parliament, congressional hearing or international conference, like the recent COP21 climate negotiations in Paris, to address whatever crises – because they know, in reality, that the world remains up to its eyeballs in deep doo-doo because of the basic human condition and its proclivity for endlessly pursuing the seven deadly sins of pride, greed, wrath, lust, envy, gluttony and sloth. Polluters run all the climate negotiations. Armament Manufacturers run all the wars. Global financiers run all the economies. Everyone knows that!

Everyone knows that the best and perhaps only way to curb international warfare, wars of terror or domestic gun violence is for all countries to stop producing, selling and distributing all the accoutrements of warfare and military weaponry that go with it. But everyone knows, too, that will never happen so long as the entire world’s economy is primarily based upon the production, sale and distribution of such accoutrements of war. It is the very life blood that sustains whole ways of life. No country is immune or absolved no matter how lofty may be their pronouncements and expressed desires for peace. So it’s a continual one step forward three steps back; a matter of simply shifting the furniture in the room or playing musical chairs.

Everyone knows, too, that the simplest way to simultaneously resolve the world’s refugee crisis, mass Diaspora of peoples, terrorism, carbon emissions, global warming, world hunger and poverty is for the simple transfer of capital from the 1% in the Developed Countries to the other 99% in the developing world to help them skip the whole primitive evolutionary process of trying to become a developed country by going through the primitive fossil fuel cycle of development and acquisition of wealth. But, of course, everyone knows this will never happen.

Everyone further knows that to do this today – NOW – in 2016, all fossil fuels must stay in the ground where they are, and the world’s economy must resolutely choose the path of immediately shifting the trillions of dollars of governmental subsidies from the producers of fossil fuels to the research, technological development and production of sustainable, renewable resources. But everyone also knows that the seven deadly sins of the world’s corporations, their CEO’s, boards and investors will never allow this to happen.

So where does that leave us all? Everyone knows that, too!