OZ 38 led on Survival.
“ This planet is dying fast. In the last three decades man has changed the delicate patterns of life on this planet in ways which would have taken millions of years to occur naturally, not the most of them would ever occur naturally. These changes have been executed bit by mindless bit with absolutely no consideration for life. It is hardly surprising that already life on this planet is on the way out. Evolution has been thrown into reverse..... Whole species are becoming extinct at an absurd rate. The variety of living things is being reduced..... The news gets worse and worse every day. Because our slide to extinction is reported in such a piecemeal uncomprehending fashion it is difficult to realise just how far up against the wall we have pushed ourselves. The media are interested in local rather than global catastrophes. Cute furry animals rather than the more critically important phytoplankton...... Some seas are at death’s door right now. Vast areas of the Baltic Sea contain nothing longer than an inch. They used to be rich in fish...... The entire atmosphere is fucked. It’s far more serious than local, visually obvious messes such as the Los Angeles smog might indicate....... Man has removed two thirds of the planet’s forest cover. Together with the phytoplankton these are the planet’s main source of oxygen....The dinosaur plods on regardless of its pending doom. Bits of it mutter about dirt, filth, blue whales, the cost of cleaning up pollution and so on, but it seems to have no complete conception of the gravity of the situation or any plans for remedial action.... It seems that the dinosaur would do anything rather than die quickly and quietly. It will drag on slowly, messily and stupidly until we get something better together.”
Dear OZ, I don’t know if I am writing this letter to the write place, but your dreadful magazine does not say where to write letters to. I hope if you have any feeling at all that you will print my letter so that some young children may understand what you and people like you are doing to them. At least give them a chance to realise right from wrong. I have not given my address and refuse to gi ve my name because I don’t want to be related to people like you in any way. If young people were kept to their religion others would not be pregnant 16 year old girls and nineteen year old long haired layabouts who have no idea of life at the age of even nineteen. There should be no such thing as sexual intercourse until the age of 21 and then it should be in the laws of matrimony. I should like to know what I am going to do about my daughter’s baby and what I am going to say to my friends and the rest of my family. This is something that my wife and I are never likely to forget. I would be most grateful if the letter has not been addressed to the write place that it is put into the proper hands, thank you. Please excuse the writing and spelling. Yours truly, a struggling parent.Statistics: Posted by rathbone — 09 Feb 2012, 08:18
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