As I write this article elections in Australia are the hot topic which ultimately will divide/unify the nation depending on which media stream you follow.
For over a century the division of the right wing versus left wing, capitalism versus communism, white collars versus blue collars, labor versus coalition, the working class versus the shareholders class has been commonly accepted as the main political division.
However, for a few years now, the rift between the two side of politics has slowly faded away as both parties seems to privilege the length they can stay in power above the results they can obtain. The division has become blurry and many question who is now directing the country and what/whose best interests are being protected.
There seems to be a plethora of hidden agendas from influences governed by big international lobbies and powerful foreign governments. The most blatant examples is probably with the Adani Mine for which Australians have been fighting against for a full 10 years. The public opinion is clearly against the opening of this gigantic carbon emission bomb and yet our voices are ignored blatantly. Politics still want to persuade Australians that we need to continue to mine coal despite the clear effects that climate change has already on our country. They want us to believe than giving billions of liters of water to mining corporations for their profits while Queensland farmers are in drought; is beneficial for all of us! Come on! This a pill hard to swallow! As big as the lump of coal they are trying to extract! They still have the affront to consider Australians too dumb to notice! They are seriously hoping for us to give up our future, to give up on our democratic rights.
Our world is now entering an unprecedented race for resources. As our population soar, space and resources become scarce. Everyone can feel it. And like everything else there are two ways to look at it:
- You can blame someone, find a culprit to serve as a scapegoat, breed hatred and violence, promote insecurity and fear to divide and govern.
OR,
- You can get to work and really try to fix the problem at the source, address the elephant in the room, regulate on resources and educate people.
This new polarization in politics makes the old right/left rift a thing of the past. Money is starting to loose its value day after day on a world where resources are dwindling. People want something to hate or to love. You can focus your negative feelings on immigrants blaming them for our soaring inflation or you can shield yourself with your love for our the planet and advocate for a better world as long as we put a control to our emissions.
Basically, you can either be scared of our resources being taken, stolen, exploited by some kind of foreign invasion in our homelands that crazed politics call “invasion”. This calls on your basic instincts as the “law of the stronger”, a very old story of domination and resource control eventually leading to wars. Quite effective to regulate efficiently an overpopulated planet, although we might loose as much as our civilization and technological advancement.
Or you can try to tackle the problem with a lot more of efforts without any guaranteed results. Regulating is also the key, but in this case, everyone in concerned. Carbon emissions are the main point of focus to try to preserve our ecosystem, our planet and our home. This way is much more harder and incredibly more gratifying also. We would achieve something that every other generation has failed to do: Marry harmoniously resource management and technological development. It would create a world more equal and stability necessary for world peace.
We all know the old way, we all know where it leads when politics starts ranting as much as this red-hair fishmonger defending our nationalism or this corrupted obnoxious blond prat on the other side of the Pacific. We know it leads to riot, genocides, corruption and martial law.
In four weeks, Australia can step away from an history of resources abuse, from the old way where oligarchy feeds on the Australian battler. Australia can also step away from a much darker future, where our beloved multi-culturalism will be attacked and segregated, where we would become enemies of ourselves.
In four weeks, think of your children, your nephews, nieces, grandchildren, their children, think of the ones of your neighbors, think of the fact they might not get to have the chance you have. You can make a choice. For you and for them.
Please choose the party who promise to protect our resources, our planet, our ecology. Protect yourself, vote for the future.
Ecovolution 