The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Six good things about the UK.

We have been at peace for almost 85 years apart from minor skirmishes. Education until the age of 18 and healthcare is free, it is not in many countries, including many communist countries. Britain still has some glorious landscapes gardened by centuries of stability. Crime is rare over much of the country. We can start our own businesses and liberate ourselves from direct control of our working lives. We still have substantial remnants of free speech.

Six bad things about the UK.

The Media Industry is rampant so that many live through media. The efficiency and funding of government services is always being compromised by government and management. The built environment is perpetually expanding. Communitarianism and Corporatism, which is the path to National Socialism, is on the rise. Political debate is being stifled by polarisation. No-one seems to realize that ugly things are round the corner.

Six ugly global things that are haunting us.

Huge population growth has led to global warming and the depletion of resources, this is blamed on you and me but the corporations and religious leaders are to blame. The Anglo-American hegemony is ending and the withdrawal of military forces and especially US influence is allowing Europe to "revert to type" like the Balkans after the fall of communism. China is on the rise and spreading a form of capitalism that will poison any culture it penetrates. The footprint of humanity is becoming so large that wild places, wildlife and countryside are globally threatened. The Media Industry is globally dominant, shaping behaviour and "morality", spreading the values that favour itself. It is only a matter of time before there is a nuclear war somewhere in the world - but how long?

Comments

ChrisM said…

"Huge population growth has led to global warming" Not true, climate change has been occurring for the last four and a half billion years. It is always either warming or cooling and the default is Ice age. We are just lucky that we happen to be alive in a warming period since the little Ice age ended in the middle of the 19th century coincidentally when we started to record temperature. Ice cores from Greenland, Antarctica, and boreholes from around the world show that we are actually in one of the cooler periods since the last Ice age with the Minoan, Roman and medieval period being warmer than today.

25 July 2019 at 02:30

John said…

I agree that there have been huge fluctuations in global temperatures without human intervention. This time round we are the culprits. See Is Global Warming entirely due to overpopulation for an analysis that includes your view.

25 July 2019 at 03:31

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