The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) lists nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats as the most acute dangers facing humanity (see: http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/holdren-aaas1/ ).
As a responsible, humanist scientist I have been doing my duty by INFORMING people about these threats e.g. see numerous articles on Media With Conscience News (MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ) and my numerous blogs (e,g, see: http://www.blogger.com/profile/04156886772294243824 ), notably my course on Rational Risk Management (see: http://rationalriskmanagement.blogspot.com/ ).
My books on related matters include a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds. A pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003: http://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-Targets-Plant-Bioactive-Compounds/dp/041530... ); “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ); and the revised and updated 2008 version of my 1998 book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (see: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ). See also my contribution “Australian complicity in Iraq mass mortality” in “Lies, Deep Fries & Statistics” (edited by Robyn Williams, ABC Books, Sydney, 2007): http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s1445960.htm ).
As a member of the Melbourne-based Yarra Valley Climate Action Group (YVCAG; see: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/ ) that in turn is linked to the Climate Emergency Network (CEN; see: http://www.climateemergencynetwork.org/ ) and the Climate Movement (see: http://www.climatemovement.org.au/ ) I have been very active in INFORMING people about the Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency facing the Planet (see the Climate Emergency Fact Sheets placed on the Web via the Yarra Valley Climate Action Group (see: http://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/system/app/pages/s... ).
Unfortunately, in the Western Murdochracies we live in an extraordinary, holocaust ignoring, genocide ignoring Culture of Ignoring, a Culture of Denial, a Culture of Lying by Omission (see “Climate Emergency, Exceptionalism & Ignoring Downunder. Letter to Eminent Australians over Public Honesty”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25702/42/ ).
Peace is the only way but Silence kills and Silence is complicity. We are obliged to INFORM others about abuses of humanity and risks to humanity.
However my words having failed, as an artist I have also turned to painting HUGE (circa 1.3 metres x 2.9 metres) Paintings for Peace, the Planet and for Mother and Child – a huge enterprise of Art for Peace and the Planet. Here are the links to my HUGE paintings (please feel free to reproduce these images, with attribution, in the interests of Humanity and please forward these links to everyone you can!): Swan Lake: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/25824/42/ , One Day Pathétique: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/26137/42/ , Clean Energy World: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/23119/42/1/1/ , My Country: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/21449/42/ , Four Seasons: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/21138/42/ , Bundoora Eucalyptus: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/22128/42/ , Deep Mind: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17895/42/ and Genes and Memes: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/18122/42/ (both of these relating to Mind and Humanism), Apocalypse Now : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17652/42/ , Jerusalem Madonna (Muslim, Renaissance Italian, Byzantine Orthodox, aboriginal, abstract expressionist fusion): http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17194/42/ , Manhattan Madonna ( a memorial for 9/11) : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10766/26/ , Rosanna Madonna: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16627/42/ , Scheherazade (for Women’s Rights) : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/16294/42 / , Sydney Madonna (for Mother and Child and Indigenous Rights) : http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10865/26/ , Truelove: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/11031/254/ , Melbourne Madonna: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13950/26/ , Qana (inspired by Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece “Guernica”): http://mwcnews.net/content/view/9547/26/ , Isfahan Matisse: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14417/26/ , Alhambra Pollock: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14082/42/ , Terra: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/ and Bundoora Arabesque: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15960/42/ . |