Why we need extinction rebellion

Yes that is about the long and the short of the human condition it will only change if every one becomes enlightened, free thinking, humble, cooperative beings with Altruism as the normal state of being human.

As opposed to greedy, self centered, twisted money grabbing bully's that our society ego and upbringing leads a great many of the human race to be.

Some thing that our ego, the divisions of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity have fostered and encouraged over the millennia of our existence.

In that we have been encouraged to strive to be better than the rest in ways that are not conducive to a free egalitarian, nurturing, loving, tolerant society's.

The birth if the Hippy generation and the peace movement signaled the beginning of a change and potential age of enlightenment. It has been to a large extent rubbished and corrupted and in many society's across the world it has never even got started its current manifestation in the Arab spring the protests in Hong Kong the traumas of Ukraine are being brutally suppressed by their own hierarchies and exploited by the others from out side and turned into the unending war on terrorism.

So there are doubts in my mind that as a race of beings and as society's we will ever be able to lift our selves out of the filth and squalor of the this condition .

I am in my 68th year off life an of the opinion that it is only the individual that can be truly spiritual and free and enlightened. That the idea if each individual having to be the change they want in the society they inhabit is the only way forward. Self change and enlightenment. We know its true for mental health , drug addiction and all those problems so it has to be true at a macro societal national cultural religious and ethnic level too.

i wrote this on the eve of the referendum how right i was .

Brexit, Orlando, Islamic state, Russian football thugs and English football fans .

Its all relative to the environment that culture produce to raise their children.
First
Brexit .the British vote on exiting the European Union.
A few days to go and every one is scared that the British public may vote to leave and cripple their economy and possible drag the European and world economy down with it.
Much of the reason for the British public voting to leave will probable rest with the desecration of the British education system by the last Tory government under Mrs Thatcher. The restriction on teaching socialist history of the suffragettes and the trade union movement and the clause 28 restriction on the work and struggles of the gay liberation movement, black power and the anti Vietnam struggle why many British 19 year old men refused to be drafted and lost dual nationality and in many cases lost their fathers as they could no longer visit them in the US and some fathers even rejected them . A struggle I was very involved with in my late teens as well as gay liberation. As many of my friends had gi dads from the war and just after.
Alongside this in my school history we where aware of the struggle to join the european union as it was part of what we where taught in our social history that Winston Churchill had wanted to have Britain at the center of Europe and the union was in some large part his idea a united states of Europe. was just what he envisaged.  
This was stopped by General De Gaul as the leader of France in cooperation with the United states who did not want a rival state in Europe. Equally supported by the Russians who also did not want a strong united Europe
With all this social history no longer taught after 1997 in secondary schools here in Britain it is no wonder that now we do not see our selves as european but as the residual citizens of the  British Empire. With a real chance that we will vote to come out of the union next week.
 In the years since Britain Joined the European Union it should have been part of the school curriculum and classes in at least one other european language should have been compulsory at all levels of education. and citizen ship classes should have been angled towards how to be a good British Subject  because that is  what we are subjects of the Queen   and Citizen of the European Union. we are first a subject of the crown and secondly a citizen of Europe. For how much longer remains to be seen.  

More on the Brexit con

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/01/brexit-referendum-was-badly-designed-and-unfairly-won-so-why-there-so-much

The Brexit referendum was badly  designed and unfairly won.  So why is there so much deference to it? - newstatesman.com But there was a much deeper unfairness with 2016 than Leave campaign spending, and that is the behaviour of much of the media. Most of the right-wing press effectively groomed their readers long before the referendum with constant stories, often simply false, of an interfering Brussels bureaucracy: so much so that the EU set up a website to correct untruths. www.newstatesman.com

how Britain was stolen from the people by the brexiteers

Brexit is an international conspiracy of rich business people mainly currency dealers and  hedge fund managers  to steal the British economy from the British people. If we are to survive Brexit a communist style nationalized infrastructure of essential services like transport, health services, power, water  and food supplies will be  necessary for the people to survive the poverty that Brexit will bring. 

 It will become a matter of who do you stand for Boris Johnson   or the parliament and the people . Currently Boris is trying to position him self as the people. He is not he is more akin to a dictator or monarch who believes he rules by the divine right. of 160,000 votes of his conservative membership a group of British individuals who believe they have divine  right to rule, By dint of being conservatives . Deluded fools that they are . 

Check this out 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy