I have been relaxing for a few hours now and while I'm not as stressed out as I was when I made the thread, I'm still concerned about the major issues in the world and in my country.
The constant news feed is not the issue, it's what is in the news. I don't watch tv almost at all nowadays, just check stuff out on facebook, autoblog, popsci, deviantart and here. Even so the big issues trickle down into my perception.
I acknowledge that there are good, fuzzy and funny things happening all over the world and people are indeed working on solutions for our problems, but I'm still frustrated at the situation we are in.
I'm not in despair or panicked, most of time I'm hopeful and positive about the future, but we all must be aware of the ongoing problems and be concerned about the way they are handled. It's pretty obvious that with things being as they are we can't go on the same path forever, some part of the system will break and if we are not ready, our whole global civilization will go down the toilet.
By some estimates we may have as little as 15-20 years before our consumerist grotwth based economy completely collapses, other estimates put climate change as a major ireversible problem by 2050.
With those two gigantic problems looming overhead and awaiting a solution what are the governments of the world doing now? This is what really irks me, they're making laws to limit individual freedom in order to increase the profits of corporations, they're trying to outlaw abortion because of religious bullshit, even here in my country, some people are talking about reinstating the death penalty here....while others do the always present fighting, killing and massacring of innocents.
I guess it's just as well we're going back to the middle ages socially because it's quite possible our grandchildren will actually live in it.
I see the world is getting better and better, but some aspect are getting worse so I'm really afraid we're going to lose this world if we are careless or conceited.
