Friday, April 2, 2010

11th Hour Reflection

Having Leonardo Di Caprio shove facts about corporations and the destruction of our planet is not how I wanted to start off my day. But the sad and shocking truth is, we are killing our planet. We are using more than we should. Its hard not to sound like a broken record trying to say how our planet is at the brink of destruction. Having this reinforced by the fact that global corporations are the ones with the most power to do anything right now really doesn't put my mind to ease at all.

"Corporations are the weapons of mass destruction". Such a short phrase, but one that really makes you think of how different our world would have been if the right people who hold so much power in these corporations had decided to make certain decisions so much more differently. If they were not motivated by greed or the need to have to make a profit from most things they do, if only they knew what they were doing to our planet, our resources, if only they actually gave a damn, the changes they would have been able to influence and implement, would have meant a cleaner, greener planet, a healthier planet for all of us. This next quote from the movie, "We live in a corporate world which makes authority", demonstrates how we are all at the mercy of these corporations. With the amount of power they hold over us, over our government, it is very worrying how easily they could influence the decisions by the government, or how they are able to rid of any problems or anyone who gets in their way.

“Our attitude is based on selfishness, economics, and politics”. This particular phrase really does sum up the nature of how we as humans operate in the world right now. We are taught at a very young age that to succeed in this world, it isn't by how great you are as a human being, but rather how great your earning powers are compared to your peers. We are bought up to value money and currency more than we value other fellow human beings. It sounds bleak, but for all that we are working for at the moment, it IS to get a job, it IS so we can earn enough for a comfortable living, it IS so we can make money.

But of course it is great to know that for all the damage that not only these corporations, but we ourselves are doing to our world, there are those that have realized the flaws in the ways that we are currently living, and it is very encouraging that more of us in this world are starting to realise this too. Though we have a very long way to go to even try and repair our world to what it used to be, it is still worth trying for if not for our own good, but the good of our future generations.

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