Black gold exploits, destroys and kills
Coffee, sometimes referred to as “black gold” is a daily routine for millions of people. Our habit throughout centuries but mainly in the past decades has created an extremely powerful branch of economy that coffee became the world’s second most traded commodity after oil. The industry is booming. The coffee barons are getting richer while [...]
You can change the world
Instead of trying to save the planet, we should save the human race
In a possible (worst-case) scenario, we could pollute the whole planet so much that there would be no space left for a single plant to grow, but the planet would still survive. Ironically, the Earth has so much time, such a vast lifespan, [...]
Let Us Be the Heroes of Challenges and Not Slaves to our Fears
All goals that we set in the 21st century can be accomplished only if we do not submit to our own greed and repeat the mistakes of the past. We cannot make compromise with the natural world simply because it is too poweful for us. Only if we approach it as a friend with respect [...]
There is more than enough work for all
We Must Give Work the Value of Necessity and Money the Value of Benefit
How do we start solving the crisis? Can we really afford going the same way like in the past when we turned soluble problems into wars that only brought wealth and power to the minority while the majority was plunged into poverty, [...]
I watch TV and wonder: “What kind of society are we at all?”
What kind of society are we to talk so much but do so little?
What kind of society are we to proclaim failures as success?
What kind of society are we to write binding documents and declarations that we keep violating?
What kind of society are we to destroy more than we save?
What kind of society are we [...]
If we accept the present as it is, we shouldn’t be building the future
Grounded warnings of the 20th Century intellectuals about the necessity to verify the true values of a rapid human civilization growth are still being deliberately ignored by the rulers who are making profit at the expense of the poor, ruthlessly robbing natural resources, destroying environment and stealing the future away from their children.
We really should [...]