The Silver Lining on the Global Storm Cloud

There's an ominous storm a-brewing in the distance, over yonder. Tensions run higher than ever, and the fever-pitch inches ever closer to the breaking point. The possibility of global war is very real, but it can be avoided if we the people of the world work toward real peace and set aside our cultural differences for a while.

The nations of the world are all beginning to awaken from the nightmare of unjust oppression, wanting to really create a life filled with actual peace and happiness. There is civil war and revolution in the Middle East, there is unrest in Africa, posturing in the Koreas, protests in a large percentage of the rest of the world. The people want change, they want to all stand as equals on a global scale, not to be oppressed by corrupt governments.

This is a great time to be alive, with all this going on, not knowing which country is going to bomb which, or which government is going to needlessly destroy its own citizens and infrastructure to display its waning power. As the global economies falter, and the world realizes that the big players are not such great business partners, war will come, and nations that are prepared for it will at least hold for a while. The U. S. will try to "spread democracy" to more resource-rich (oil, namely) countries to try keeping the price of it high for the world, while the oil companies continue to line their pockets. This will continue until the entire world comes to realize that petroleum backed money holds no value when there's no more petrol, and that inevitability draws nearer everyday. When it does, what will back the moneys of the world? Would it be possible to return to the gold standard?

Muammar Gaddafi was in the process of switching Libya's monetary system back, and away from the U. S. backed petrol dollar before he was removed from office, but we all know how that played out. I'm not saying he was a benevolent leader to his people, but he knew that it would be better to re-establish gold-backed finances (because oil won't be around forever) than to kowtow to the U. S. and the failing petrol dollar. It makes sense, but we'll never know if it would have worked. 

China is being surprisingly patient with the U. S.'s continual stalemate on it's own budgeting issues and failure to pay down the loans that have only grown larger in the last few years instead of shrinking. It's only matter of time until one side declares war over the issue, and both sides will lose more than either side could possibly gain. It is a frightening thing to have looming in the foreseeable future, and may never come to pass, but it's better to err on the side of caution than to be ruined in a state of false complacency. 

If a war breaks out between the Koreas, then the U. S, will back South Korea, and China may or may not back the North (they are contractually obligated, but if N. K. is flexing beyond logical necessity, they'd be smart to stay out of it). If China and the U. S. get involved, then the proxy war from the 1950's will start all over again, this time having nuclear armament on three sides of the conflict. With that possible scenario, and the willingness of Kim Jong Un to push the button, a nuclear exchange is almost guaranteed, and that would spell disaster for the targets, as well as the entire planet's ecosystem. The radiation would render the immediate targets uninhabitable, the area miles around as well, and the fallout would affect the environment for hundreds of miles in every direction. Weather patterns would severely shift, which would probably ruin agriculture on a wide scale, causing starvation in a way not seen in many places since the early 1800's. There would be a great deal of cooling if there were enough fallout, but that is really dependent on the amount of missiles that manage to avoid the defenses and actually hit their targets. 

I don't want to panic anyone, but these issues are serious. I know that as intelligent as we claim to be, there is a better way to resolve the global unrest and inequities, but I fear that the herd mentality may cause us to stampede into extinction and the destruction of all the surface dwelling organisms because we can't play nice.

So, how can we fix it? The question on everyone's lips, it seems. Not an easy fix, and not all parties involved are going to be affected equally, because the parties that are the larger parts of the issues will have to put more effort into reducing their parts. 

My proposal:

• Place the global economy on a static commodity that the value is fair stable, gold is a good choice, being as the amount of it doesn't diminish when we use it.
• Either completely disarm the entire nuclear compliment of every nation on Earth, or have all of them committed to help build something that will benefit humanity instead of destroying it. I like the Orion Project, personally, because of the additional benefit of exploring space in a greater capacity becomes realistic again. 
• Find common ground with the leaders of the nations that are not on the friendliest of terms with yours, learn about how they see the world and really take interest in helping them become a part of the global age.
• Elect people who will actually strive to improve the lives of the citizens of their respective nations, if elections aren't an option, then protest until the demands of the people are met. Do not allow tyranny to take root anywhere, stamp it out and burn it at the root.
• Separate religion from all politics. The politics of religion are hate, oppression, and seclusion from those outside of the ideals of the faith. Religion is the enemy of reason, it will poison any effort to establish a global dialog of peace.

• Bring education and infrastructure to places that need it. A great deal of people in Africa and Asia are starving and illiterate because the only way to get food is either listen to some religious sermon and surrender to the church, or to hunt animals that are equally likely to either escape or kill you. Bring irrigation and farming equipment to them, teach them to read, and don't pollute them with unnecessary dogmas until you teach them to think critically about every aspect of a presented idea.
• Redistribute global wealth to equalize the playing field for nations that are struggling to be world players. A reduction of super-conglomerates like Monsanto into smaller companies that each have someone that is accountable for the actions of the companies is essential in assuring equal standing for all global players.

These are my suggestions for trying to improve the living situation of the one world we have. Until we learn to play nice with our own species and maintain the only world we can verify sustains life, we shouldn't consider anything beyond ours as a high priority issue.
It's going to take all of us working together to ensure we don't destroy the most precious thing we have, and that thing is life.

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