03/11/2013
Simple solutions to the real world problems!
John Lennon once said,
"Ah, people asking questions, lost in confusion
Well I tell them there's no problem only solutions!"
(Watching the Wheels)
Well I am no artist, I have no simple one line solutions to any problems, I don't offer any solutions, my cause is to present the problems, let people think about things and decide, each for them self, as to what they can do to help.
No problem that I see in my world today is simple, I have, however, also said that " we don't have any problems that a Jesus or a Stalin could not fix, and Jesus may not come sooner.
Come to think of it, Jesus and Muhamad, Moses and Buddah, Leviticus and Humarabi they all had solutions to ALL of our problems, yet thousands of years later, we are still here!
We do not live in a Socialist utopia, Capitalism has not yet produced Manna from heaven either. First problem with food, " if food is grown for profit, some people will/must starve.
It is easy to say that all must be vegetarians, the problem is first how you enforce your edict, you want to educate five or six billion that actually do eat meats? As the "wealth" of the world increases more people are inclined to eat meats, and that is just part one of the problem.
I understand the problems with eating meats, from gout to kidney failure, higher cholesterol and triglycerides to high blood pressure, not to say about the pressures on land, water resources, pollution, methane, antibiotics and hormones and of course cruelty to animals, I love animals too, live and the ones on my dinner plate. But growing crops is not problem free either, fertilizers, insecticides, water
Use, water way pollution, under ground water depletion, to name a few, yet in this era of jobs, jobs, jobs, animal "production" is much more labor intensive than farming.
I love the ideals, all ideals and all idealists, but we live in a real world.
It is not just about food, it is about consumption. Every time you turn on the heater in your house, or you get in in a car, ride a subway, a plane or a train, you cause problems for some one some where in the world, a human being just like you and I. Every time you go to a movie, to a church ( mosque, temple what ever) you cause problems. Every time a child is born to a poor woman, in Pakistan, Somalia or even UK or the USA, we create a problem. If a woman in Bangladesh lights a fire with sticks to boil her rice, she is contributing to global warming.
Every time someone buys gold or a diamond, when our government buys a fighter jet or a submarine, when I turn the hot water on in my shower, every time we do a line of coke or smoke a joint, some one (a human) some where must suffer.
Yet we worry about animals, to eat or not to eat!
"Charity, to do very little good, to feel a lot better about yourself." (M. N. R)
In the meantime, here are somethings to chew on!
http://www.fpif.org/articles/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/
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Simple solutions to the real world problems!
John Lennon once said,
"Ah, people asking questions, lost in confusion
Well I tell them there's no problem only solutions!"
(Watching the Wheels)
Well I am no artist, I have no simple one line solutions to any problems, I don't offer any solutions, my cause is to present the problems, let people think about things and decide, each for them self, as to what they can do to help.
No problem that I see in my world today is simple, I have, however, also said that " we don't have any problems that a Jesus or a Stalin could not fix, and Jesus may not come sooner.
Come to think of it, Jesus and Muhamad, Moses and Buddah, Leviticus and Humarabi they all had solutions to ALL of our problems, yet thousands of years later, we are still here!
We do not live in a Socialist utopia, Capitalism has not yet produced Manna from heaven either. First problem with food, " if food is grown for profit, some people will/must starve.
It is easy to say that all must be vegetarians, the problem is first how you enforce your edict, you want to educate five or six billion that actually do eat meats? As the "wealth" of the world increases more people are inclined to eat meats, and that is just part one of the problem.
I understand the problems with eating meats, from gout to kidney failure, higher cholesterol and triglycerides to high blood pressure, not to say about the pressures on land, water resources, pollution, methane, antibiotics and hormones and of course cruelty to animals, I love animals too, live and the ones on my dinner plate. But growing crops is not problem free either, fertilizers, insecticides, water
Use, water way pollution, under ground water depletion, to name a few, yet in this era of jobs, jobs, jobs, animal "production" is much more labor intensive than farming.
I love the ideals, all ideals and all idealists, but we live in a real world.
It is not just about food, it is about consumption. Every time you turn on the heater in your house, or you get in in a car, ride a subway, a plane or a train, you cause problems for some one some where in the world, a human being just like you and I. Every time you go to a movie, to a church ( mosque, temple what ever) you cause problems. Every time a child is born to a poor woman, in Pakistan, Somalia or even UK or the USA, we create a problem. If a woman in Bangladesh lights a fire with sticks to boil her rice, she is contributing to global warming.
Every time someone buys gold or a diamond, when our government buys a fighter jet or a submarine, when I turn the hot water on in my shower, every time we do a line of coke or smoke a joint, some one (a human) some where must suffer.
Yet we worry about animals, to eat or not to eat!
"Charity, to do very little good, to feel a lot better about yourself." (M. N. R)
In the meantime, here are somethings to chew on!
http://www.fpif.org/articles/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/
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