Understand Nor Admire, A Foggy Civilization. By Baraka Mollel.

For the last two decades that i have manage to live in this world, no decade has manage to astonish me than this decade. with Global Warming, Donald Trump , BREXIT, Black Lives Matters, ISIS, Africa Stagnation and many other dramatic events and agendas. It looks like the world is in a magnificent transformation it has yet ever experience before. I mean don't get me wrong, I am not a hardcore conservative neither a liberal, but back then it was clear the only enemy was the Soviets or the Communists. But now days you'll hear a lot of things often confusing.

So, is the world changing or are the people changing? Are we growing smarter or are we going dumber? Are we all equal or there is a difference?

Human being history have been the history of wars, conquest, hunger, diseases, intellectual and economic superiority. Led by the big super powers such as USA, Russia and now China at their realm.

Human beings been the most intelligent living thing, has failed over and over to come together and actually figure out what is our purpose in this world or who and what is our real enemy. Is it diseases and illiteracy or it is ourselves?

If you read our history and get into facts there is no a significant amount of positive outcome that has bloom out of our existence in this world. Yes it is true that there are some benefits but it is not good enough. We fight ourselves fiercely than we fight diseases and hunger. We fight hard for profit with no moral sympathy.

The concept of a sustainable civilization seems impossible, we fight and become resilient when our scientists and politicians state that global warming is a major issue. We don’t want solutions because it too expensive and too hard to do it. We brand the people who want a sustainable society as “anti-business” or “radicals”.

Political and economic ideologies

Out of these two intellectual ideas we humans have coined the term "Progress" we tend to measure our existence in-term of pre-established code of standards and mathematical models in which some of us we call "development". But i think it is about time that we go back and rethink again if it is a substantial idea to do so or we all got it wrong and we have lost our purpose.

Over population

What is the real costs of our progressive ideas such as globalization and industrialization? Does the costs outweigh the benefits or its vice-versa, we cut down trees, we are still slaying each other, we have mechanize fishing, we pollute the environment all of this and more for our economic objectives. Clearly we don’t save this earth because the fact is humans are the users of natural resources and the earth is the producer of those limited natural resources which takes millions of years to be developed and yet we exploit them without thinking of the future of this planets and its inhabitants, OUR FUTURE.

Population pressure, pressure on natural resources and diseases will not be solved when they will occur rather they have to be prevented from occurring in the first place. Let it be HIV/AIDS, Ebola or Zika Virus, handling these diseases should not be an economic question rather a moral issue, no one should make money out of saving lives.

Furthermore the world’s population has nearly doubled for the last 45 years. The availability of natural resources and the demands of billions of humans who require them for their survival is greater. Yet the stocks of natural resources that support human life such as food, fresh water, quality soil, energy, and biodiversity-are being polluted, degraded, and depleted.

Just imagine the world’s population right now is at 7 Billion people and with the available resources we still can’t feed all people. What will happen when the world’s population reaches 9 billion mark or even 12 billion people by 2050?

In my views I think the world is not a fixed arena, it is rather “an evolution showground” meaning the world changes over a period of time and its habitants also change. It is about time that this world has to adopt new sustainable ideas and sustainable strategies for the sake of our own existence, it’s time to face our real enemies (hunger, diseases, and illiteracy) as a united force rather than individuals.

The world needs a new agenda, and the sustainability and peace than economic objectives is the agenda. Be political, Social, Economic or Cultural sustainability. The costs of progress are higher than the costs of sustainability, also the benefits of sustainability overshadows those of progress in the long run.

Rethink!