Nero and his lyre
At this point this
text could end.
Because what I
have to tell you,
Figure 1 and Figure 2 say it all.
You can draw the
conclusions for yourself.
You can predict the
decision of the Board of Reprieve.
We have an
explosion of population on the one hand,
an explosion of greed
and waste on the other.
These are the
facts and are what we have to cope with.
Ours is the Earth
and ours is the decision.
Either we climb a
hill to have better view of
the burning city and
play our lyre like Nero,
or we do something.
And please, don't
tell me that it is not our concern and
not our responsibility
to care about it, because there are
the wise men,
the authorities,
the trustees,
the rulers,
the Presidents
the Prime Ministers
and the others.
I will not accept
it.
It is the
responsibility of each one of us.
If
you are, sir, actually a highly developed mammal,
a
thinking primate, and not a gastropod, and you
see
this beautiful planet threatened with catastrophe,
your
own species with extinction, and the civilization
that
your ancestors built stone by stone with destruction,
then
you have to do something.
Otherwise,
the leaders would
do
well to treat you like a mollusc,
and
you do well, to condemn
yourself
to elimination.
Whoever wants to
can take his
lyre and climb to the
nearest hill.
Isn't this what
most people do anyway?
Don't they give
this answer at every opportunity?
"What's it
to me?"
The question is,
will anyone remain
who
will want to do
something?
But do not ask me
to tell you
what should be done.
I had no such
intentions.
I just wanted to open
the discussion.
If you want, we
can work together
to look for the
solution.
But it will not be easy.
We have a long way
to go,
until we get to this
point.
We have to solve a
problem.
And there are not
many ways
to solve a problem.
There is only one.
The other way is
to hide our
heads in the sand like
the ostrich and
pretend there is no
problem.
In other words
just as we
have been doing until
now.
If we want to deal
with the problem,
•
we
need first to understand it,
•
we
need to recognize the facts
that define its
conditions,
•
we
need to analyse them,
•
we
need to search and, if we can,
find the causes of the
phenomena,
•
we
have to agree on these
(and I consider this
step very important and very difficult,
because you will see
how those who are infiltrated from
the spirit of the
system under which we live will react)
and
•
then
begin to make suggestions and
•
discuss
the possibility of solving the problem.
If we can succeed
in making this analysis
with a few pages of
simple text,
we should be more than
happy.