Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 20, No. 12, December 2024 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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It Is Time We Educate Children About the Coming Collapse George Tsakraklides This article was originally published by George Tsakraklides, 9 November 2024 REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION Photo provided by the author. Click on the image to enlarge. We live in a collapsing civilisation stepping into a cliff with its eyes closed.  Fascist hate-stirrers promise to magically extinguish inflation while ignoring what is actually causing it: a climate crisis with a lethal magic trick of its own: not only will food become expensive beyond belief.  It will vanish, as the audience suddenly realise that they are not watching a magic act, but a morbid cabaret.  The theatre is about to eat them alive. Yet the general public is stupid enough to think that food grows on supermarket shelves. They complain about prices as if they are entitled to milk and eggs at a low price, unaware that even today’s prices are extremely low compared to what’s coming.  Most consumatrons do not realise that food comes from nature, because they don’t know what nature is.  But anyone who is a farmer or gardener is witnessing the food, climate and ecological apocalypse in real time, every day when they go out to visit their garden or plot.  They know, because their eyes are wide open: they are paying attention, because they have no other choice.  They are connected to nature, as all humans used to be before they barricaded themselves inside “civilisations”. Our society would have stood a chance if instead of the pointless “education” preparing them to become working zombies, children were given a small plot of land at birth, to take care of for the next 20 years.  If they failed, they would not graduate however fancy grades they got in math, literature or machine learning.   So many teachers have privately said to me that teaching children today is increasingly becoming a ridiculous exercise in delusion, as they prepare students for careers that won’t exist in a collapsed civilisation: these children will live in a world where the things they learn will be utterly useless.  It is time for this civilisation to stop indoctrinating itself with lullabies and tell its children the bitter truth.  The earlier they know, the more likely it is that they will take the decisions which we ourselves were too selfish, greedy, and distracted to take.  They deserve to know the truth.  Because this collapse is the only inheritance they get from us. ABOUT THE AUTHOR George Tsakraklides is an author, researcher, chemist, molecular biologist, and food scientist. You can follow him on Twitter, @99blackbaloons, and enjoy his books, A New Earth: The Apocalypse Locus, The Unhappiness Machine and Other Stories about Systemic Collapse, Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy, and Algorithms, and others. |Back to Title| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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