It is Remembrance Day, and we must remember why we have a day off. It was 90 years ago that the “war to end all wars” ended. Unfortunately we did not learn much, and still have wars to this day. In this day and age, we have ways of killing each other with naught but a push of a button. As easily as I type these words, a house could be destroyed. With the ease of purchasing a book online, a town or city can be wiped from existence. With a few clicks of a mouse, an entire country can be reduced to radioactive ash. This is not the world that I want to live in, yet so many people seem content to fight and kill and die for what seems, at least to my feeble intellect, trivial reasons. I am tired of conflict and violence and jihad and border skirmishes. We live in a global world, and our problems are global.
Thus I think it is time to lay aside our petty nationalism and work together. Nuclear weapons, economy environment are all things that must be dealt at a global level. We breathe the same air, drink the same water and we need to grow beyond our tribal stage and move into a time of global cooperation and problem solving. It is time that we grow up and talk about our problems.
How this should take shape, I know not. I only know that we will either stand together and survive as a species and planet, or we will become extinct, and the planet will go on without us…
There are no borders when looking at the earth, only a small, fragile “pale blue dot”.
Scott
