What further evidence do the inhabitants of planet Earth need to have to convince them the liveable climate, the lungs of the Earth, is sharply deteriorating, species are dying, the mere failure of a computer chip or of a human neuron are capable of terminating civilization, that the powers that be are leading to one of the greatest mass extinction in the history of the Earth and that mass migration to Mars is a cynical myth. At the death of détente the powers that be, aimed toward World War III, do not appear to be concerned with the consequences of extreme global warming, clear evidence for their lack of concern for life on Earth.
No other painting than that of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica massacre symbolizes oncoming fascism – the human death cult reaching a peak in World War 11 and re-emerging toward World War III, as nuclear fleets and climate extremes aim at life on Earth, as Governments and snake oil merchants spend $trillions threatening to radioactivate the atmosphere, reinventing the killing fields under false flags as Goebbels-like agents with blood on their hands deceive the multitude to the tune of canned laughter, women carry dead children, multi-billionaires plan future space shots out of the mouths of the hungry, Olympic cyclists write themselves into history and only the young rebel against the global insanity.
Cycles of death, repeated almost every generation, follow breakups in the international order, women die alongside their men as in the Spanish Civil war, or are left to rebuild their shattered homes.
Over the past few decades the probability of a nuclear war has grown to some 12,121 hair-triggered weapons aimed at all life, that the criminal powers refuse to dismantle, propagating hollow Orwellian speak on the airwaves. But while it is common for the misguided to attribute atrocities to so called “leaders”, including in parliaments, which the people initially elected under false pretences.
The consequences range from fatal imperial wars to global climate calamities. According to Jeffrey D. Sachs (July 16, 2024): “The quest for hegemony has pushed the world to open warfare between the world’s two leading nuclear powers”.
As conveyed by Thucydides Trap the rise of empires constitutes a major driver of international conflict, from the Persian superpower to the Roman empire. In the modern era détente could hardly survive while submarine and space weapon systems proliferate and adversaries seek “victory” at the price of millions of lives in World wars. There is no evidence current promoters of the looming nuclear war can be brought to trial in a future round of Nurenberg trials.
Fascism, coined after the Roman fascia, tantamount to military barbarism, represents the hallmark of tribal killing through history (Figure 3). as contrasted with a small percent of peaceful nomadic tribes. The ratio of male deaths in modern wars is far less (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Percent of male warfare deaths in different human societies and times. The chart compares eight tribes in New Guinea and South America with fatalities in the the US and Europe in the 20th century. War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage. New York: Oxford University Press. referenced in Pinker, Steven (2002). The Blank Slate. New York: Penguin. page 74.
The ultimate control of a future global biosphere by AI-weapon systems can only subject civilization and the living biosphere to an intelligence-free world, hard to
conceive more brutal than World wars I, II or the looming World War III.
But blame cannot be exclusively attributed to “leaders”, so-called, who once elected into positions of “power” need to conform to those in contnrol of industry and society. Opinion makers manufature consent. The mega-rich, tycoons, corporate directors, share holders and managers of the “fourth estate” paint black as white propagating major untruths, for example as if carbon exports can be distinguished from domestic greenhouse emisisons in terms of their effects on the atmosphere.
While responsibility belongs to all of humanity, it is the relatively affluent “first world” governments which generate the oncoming collapse:
Ozymandia
I met a traveler from an antique land Who said:
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the
desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a
shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled
lip and sneer of cold command, Tell that its
sculptor well those passions read, Which yet
survive, stampt on these lifeless things, The hand
that mockt them and the heart that fed: And on
the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is
Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works,
ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay Of that colossal wreck,
boundless and bare The lone and level sands
stretch far away.”
“Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
Andrew Glikson, Earth and climate scientist
