Drought 2022
17 August 2022 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixmannEurope dries out this year...
Thank you, people! Thank you for traveling to Majorca every summer, for traveling to Turkey, Egypt and all the other Mediterranian areas, thank you for every cruise trip you ever joined in the last 20 years, thank you for producing and buying all the short-lived stuff and throwing things away before their expiration, thank you for outsourcing and globalized economy, thank you for all the wars in the Middle East, thank you for all the babies you had to get in the last 20 years, thank you for all the crap you've thoughtlessly thrown into nature, than you for all the stuff you have thoughtlessly taken from nature, thank you for valuing everything in money and rating it higher than matter - thank you for coming up and never getting enough!
That's what everyone gets from it!
And there's still way, way, WAY more to get!
Thank you, people! Thank you for traveling to Majorca every summer, for traveling to Turkey, Egypt and all the other Mediterranian areas, thank you for every cruise trip you ever joined in the last 20 years, thank you for producing and buying all the short-lived stuff and throwing things away before their expiration, thank you for outsourcing and globalized economy, thank you for all the wars in the Middle East, thank you for all the babies you had to get in the last 20 years, thank you for all the crap you've thoughtlessly thrown into nature, than you for all the stuff you have thoughtlessly taken from nature, thank you for valuing everything in money and rating it higher than matter - thank you for coming up and never getting enough!
That's what everyone gets from it!
And there's still way, way, WAY more to get!
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Date: 20 August 2022 08:28 pm (UTC)I think... regarding Muslim countries, for example, I also often call people to not get euphoric too quickly about the idea "education and wealth makes people want fewer children".
It's not as self-evident that people take the same path there like the Christian and the European world and reduce the numbers of children couples have if they can get all of them to survive and grow into adults.
The Muslim world also has strange cultural customs/thoughts like this: "If I get richer, I can afford myself more wives and even even more children".
And therefore it shouldn't be thought of as "a safe deal" if Muslim countries get to accumulate more material wealth.
People can indeed think and function every different about this topic.
My guess is... Getting Islamic culture to understand the fact that they can't have dozens of children with several wives because overpopulation of the world with humans is a serious problem that may bring the base for a living into danger for everyone around the world (e. g. because the natural resources all have to share don't get more in masss) - I think this is going to be a real challenge.