We've all got to die of something, but nobody wants to hear that. Do they?

We're not immortal. Maybe there is life after death but we've all got to shuffle off this mortal coil. Even those tiny babies being born right now, this minute, will someday die. This coldblooded fact is something society is scared witless of; I believe that is why the UK is a crap place to be old, considering we're a shining example of Western "Civilisation" and all the benefits that entails. We hide our old because youth is all that matters; ageing will happen to someone else. They will have "cured" ageing by the time we get old. We don't want to think of what awaits us: The essential, inescapable end because we were granted a beginning.


Which brings me to the related topic of the mass extinction that will occur if we don't combat climate change. Which, let's face it, we won't! It appears that Global Warming is filed next to health warnings about saturated fat and the link between UV exposure and skin cancer. We rich types will collectively stick our heads in the sand like the oft-mentioned ostrich (they don't even do it - wtf is that about?!) and then most (if not all) humans - poorest and most disadvantaged first - will die, along with inumerable species, having along the way permanently and irreparably damaged the planet. Yup, that's millions of years of evolution -from tigers to tarantulas to tapirs to tamarind to ocelots and oak trees and olives and orangutans - gone forever for the sake of a few hundred years of industry and greed. Leaving but the boiling, freezing, suffocating husk of our loving mother Earth. It's harsh, it's horrific, it's HAPPENING. And we're all living our lives as if it isn't, because everybody else is.

Some seem to think that it is scientists being doom-laden for nothing or that "they only make money when they say stuff like that". Scientists have enough amazing things to research without whispering apocalyptic sweet nothings.

As I said, who will suffer first and most when the world's weather systems are mangled? The people who our government, trade laws, taxes and lack of empathy help to keep in misery and poverty and dying of treatable diseases in their millions. The world's poor and the West's dirty secret, who didn't get a chance to sit and type this blog on their laptop because of where they happened to be born. Female born in Tumbridge Wells: Education, vaccinations, contraception, legal protection, human rights. Female born in Darfur, Sudan - if I managed not to die in childhood: poverty, 50% illiteracy, poor health, terrorisation by war, made an internal refugee, raped as routine by soldier(s), 53 year average lifespan. There is not a shred of justice in this world. Animals treat their own better than we do, yet we are the species that "conquered" space.

There is obviously a huge fault running through the centre of whatever it is that operates our squishy brains. It makes me think that in spite of the cost to the planet and other species, human beings don't deserve to be saved from our own mess. We're simply not worth it. M.

(I'm not neurotic, not depressed, I'm not being morbid. There's nothing wrong with me: It's everything else that's wrong.)