The Price of Peace April 12, 2007
Posted by mobius in Ad Hoc Musings.trackback
My wife noted after leafing through a stack of current magazines, “everyone is turning green“. True, it seems to be quite popular now for folks to adhere or at least espouse the sustainable living life. What is driving this movement? Are the major economic systems failures becoming evident to a greater number in the ‘developed world’ such that they are willing to embrace something new? Or is something new emerging from multiple points around the globe?
Twenty percent of the world’s population is consuming 70% of the world’s resources. In addition, these same nations spend 78% of the total military budget. The U.S. share alone accounts for 47% of this total compared to the “axis of evil” budget of .001%. Spending $729 billion dollars to defend to defend what we ‘have’ from those that ‘have not’ demands explanation. (Paul Doughty, personal communication, April 3, 2007).
The economic realities of living in community with our earth and with each other may be upon us. There is a movement afoot to create a Department of Peace in the United States. I would encourage you to check this out at: http://www.thepeacealliance.org this is only one of the many efforts focused on changing the topic of conversation towards a peaceful, more sustainable world. Please share others…we need them all.
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