The Hidden Holocaust–Our Civilizational Crisis Part 1: The Holocaust in History

As we are all aware, the term “Holocaust” is traditionally used to refer to the “systematic, bureaucratic state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime”, during the Second World War. The word “Holocaust” is a Greek word, which means “sacrifice by fire.” It conveys an event, the scale and horror of which, transformed the course of world history. Moreover, it’s often seen as a crime against humanity that is unparalleled and unique.

This, we cannot dispute………..

For the entire article by Nafeez Amed, click on the following link,

http://nafeez.blogspot.com/

As ever,

Steve

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Always,

Steve

I’ll email you regarding those questions.

I’ve forwarded your comment to Emily.

JF, great article by ES. How can I find her by email to email her and tell her about my idea of polar cities? You, too, please read:

http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com

“Gratuitous fatuous pastimes,” that’s the ticket. We need to make it clear that that’s what we are involved with. It’s the ungluing that’s needed, that we need to find out how to do. For decades we’ve been trying to give our children more than we parents grew up with. Now parents need to learn how to teach children to be happy with less. That’s a tough problem.

It does sum it up very nicely. I like this:

Look at what we have done with the energy we have already. We’ve ploughed up prairies, razed forests, drained aquifers, polluted the oceans, atmosphere and soil, extinguished untold other species, and consumed more and more of the planet’s finite resources in the process.

What would we do with unlimited free energy? Suddenly recover from this self-centered, destructive behaviour?

Add the link between energy and population growth, and what might seem an incredible breakthrough – if we were to discover an extremely abundant source of clean energy – starts to look downright scary.

That’s a great little article on free energy. It’s a very succinct statement of the issue that demonstrates the author’s grasp of the problem. Needless to say, I’m 100% in agreement with him.

It’s nice to know that others “get it”.

“Free Energy? – No Thanks!”

My only answer is that we all need to become activists, and should communicate in every way we can think of. Post comments on blogs and under articles on news sites. Submit articles to sites and other publications. Start a blog or website. Write letters to the editor. Talk to and email friends and people with whom you come in contact. Encourage them to spread awareness as well. Write to environmental groups and ask why they don’t address the more contentious but key issues such as population growth. Do some research and put together a talk to give to groups. Write letters to your government representatives. Write letters to other government officials. Write them to officials in other countries. Write to scientists and urge them to get involved. Organize community events and coalitions. And I agree with Steve that if you happen to know personally someone in a position to influence policy or public opinion you should talk with them, urge them to become aware of the ecological plight we face, and to act now to address the fundamental causes, not just to pay lip service to minor policy tweaks. In fact, in all the above, emphasize the need for massive, sweeping action to return us to sustainability, not piddling ideas of little impact on advancing global ecological and societal collapse.

And I think we need clearly to spread a certain message in Emily’s essay: that while we naturally want to fix various technological and social problems for the betterment of humanity, doing so without addressing population is a serious mistake. As I hinted in introducing the essay, the notion that simply finding a clean, renewable, abundant energy source, for example, would alone solve our environmental problems is badly flawed. We can’t take our eye off population. It’s strange to me, too, that so many (even apart from religion) seem to wish we could.

Thanks to contributors to this discussion and to other discussions like those occuring in the Earth & Sky community and the Orion community, we can share an adequate understanding of the distinctly human-derived predicament with which humanity is soon to be confronted.

Despite the remarkable efforts of deniers, naysayers, and those suffering from hysterical deafness, willful blindness and muteness, the good scientific evidence we share is sufficient for us to see our predicament.

How do we transmit Emily Spence’s kind of communication to people who are simply unaware of what she is communicating so persuasively?

No sane human being could stand motionless in the face of such daunting challenges to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth as we are witnessing.

That silence about the global challenges looming before humanity as a result of certrain unrestrained human overgrowth activities has been allowed to thrive while good science, reason and common sense have been ignored, is a sign of some kind of serious mental disturbance within the human community.

Evidence for the next statement is everywhere but not yet seen by many people.

THE HUMAN SPECIES IS DANGEROUSLY OUT OF BALANCE WITH THE NATURAL WORLD OF WHICH ARE AN INTEGRAL PART AND, EVEN WORSE, SUFFERS FROM A POTENTIALLY LETHAL LOSS OF MENTAL BALANCE REQUIRED FOR HUMAN SELF-PRESERVATION, I SUPPOSE.

A torch has got to be carried by all of us to the rich, the powerful and the famous —- the ones with most of the wealth —- who organize public opinion, form government policy and direct the talking heads in the mass media, to get the word out. The time for ubiquitous, self-limiting behavior change is at hand. Indeed, it is long overdue.

Hopefully too much time has not been wasted, too much of the environment irreversibly degraded, too many species massively extirpated, many too many resources recklessly dissipated and too much of the world we inhabit uttely compromised by our unbridled consumption, production and propagaton activities.

If you know people who can and will make a difference, simply describe the world’s problem and tell them the time for action is now.

Thank you.