8 May is the 100th birthday of Biosphere champion David Attenborough and also the 81st anniversary of VE Day (victory over genocidal Nazi Germany). It’s germane to consider the present and adumbrated destruction of species and of humans.
Famed scientist Stephen Hawking succinctly stated (2018): “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change”.
However in the last 2.5 years an out-of-control nuclear power Apartheid Israel (90 nuclear weapons) has bombed 6 countries (Qatar, Yemen, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iran), and armed and otherwise backed by nuclear-armed America (5,277 nukes) is perpetrating a Gaza Genocide (875,000 deaths from violence and deprivation), and occupying and devastating Palestine and Lebanon. Israel and America have been criminally bombing non-nuke Iran for 2 months, and Russia (5,459 nukes) has been criminally bombing non-nuke Ukraine for 4 years, both with massive risks of catastrophic radioactive contamination, dirty bombs, or nuclear war.
Ecocide, speciecide, atmospheric greenhouse gases, and global warming are at record highs and increasing, with irreversible tipping points reached or looming. We must follow Indigenous Australian practice and be advised by our wisest elders.
Silence is complicity.