Sir

The way that our politicians are working and addressing mounting global problems is like Nero fiddling whilst Rome burns.

They are oblivious to the strains on humankind’s constant growth and are impotent in preventing global Armageddon coming in this present century. While they try and fix the financial system through the people’s wealth, they impoverish tens of millions yearly. The system is a destructive force where they are the conductors, forever adding fuel to the burning mass that goes on underneath. Over the next 20 years, the world will start to witness a far more destabilised world, where wars become a common event. By then there will be more than eight billion humans on planet Earth, a significant number unable to sustain themselves.

Indeed, the vast dwindling resources problem will create the base and start-line for global conflict, the size and ferocity never seen before. Therefore, as Rome did indeed burn, so will humankind eventually. This is not pie-in-the-sky scare-mongering, but sheer fact and is conditioned only by common sense and what will eventually come to pass.

That is why armaments throughout the world are increasing every year and by 2030, through this vast expenditure by governments worldwide, this could well be the largest industry in the world turning over more than $5 trillion annually. In this respect alone, in the US, the Friends Committee on National Legislation calculates for Fiscal Year 2009 that the majority of US taxpayers’ money goes towards war – about 44.4 per cent of all taxes.

Therefore, while our politicians continue to place their faith in the idea that the strongest will prevail, they lose sight of any possibility of a peaceful future world. Indeed again, they fuel the whole process of human destruction, one where their combined interests of relying on weapons of mass destruction to protect themselves and the preservation of the capitalist system that supports such an unholy mechanism, is absolutely flawed.

In time, and when things are too late, politicians will realise the folly of their mismanagement of the world order, for by then all that they once held so dear will have disappeared completely – and the rest of humankind with it.

All the above dictated by a vastly overpopulated world, unimaginable depletion of natural resources that will not be able to support all human life (it only takes 15 per cent of the global population to be affected to cause an irreversible situation), lack of energy and food, the destruction of arable land by continual erosion (both the hot climate effect and rise in sea levels) and the decimation of the oceans through industrial pollution and energy resources extraction on a momentous scale.


Dr. David Hill
World Innovation Foundation Charity
Bern, Switzerland