Ride into the Danger Zone

This manifesto proposes fundamental changes. This is rather fearsome. The last two sentences are no rhetoric, I think it is very fearsome. I am indeed a bit afraid of the future.

But no matter what we do, the future will bring changes so radical that I cannot imagine them - no matter if 6 billion scream hurray and subscribe to the manifesto (no I'm not completely nuts, I don't believe anything like this will happen, I'm trying to make a point) or if we continue the way we are currently going. The future is wild (though maybe a bit sparse on wildlife).

A child is dying with about every two words you read here. Ill people do not get medicine because that would hurt somebody's profits. Unleashed human wolves slay hundreds of thousands of people with machetes and AK47s. We display stupefying wealth and detain people at our borders who try to escape stupefying poverty. And many of us have chutzpa to call ourselves Christians, goddamn it. One billion people suffer severe malnutrition and we burn food in our cars.

The temperature will rise some three degrees C, the sea level will rise a meter and we're carrying out one of the biggest mass extinctions in earth's history. The current systems does its best to destroy the planet and it appears to be bound to finish the job if we let it.

Whatever comes from the manifesto, we'll have to try really hard to match that.