“We may well be in the eye of a storm.”

Let’s go straight to the point, since there is no time to lose.

We are in trouble. Big trouble. And you know it.

This means both of us, our families, friends, cities, nations, continents, in fact the entire humanity and much of life on the planet are in great danger.

As Stephen Hawking — considered one of the most brilliant minds of our time — had warned us only a couple of years ago, we’re going through “the most dangerous time in human history”. The shocking news is that our own personal lives, those of our children and very possibly the fate of our species are all going to be decided in the next 30 years.

1. Systemic problems

The most obvious problems we are facing involve human civilization as a whole and its relationship with the natural environment: the ecological crisis, the energy crisis, the population crisis, the limits to growth, etc. have emerged because of the incompatibility between our current mode of development and the biosphere. The continuous abuse perpetrated by our species on the Earth’s resources has forced the biosphere to withstand unprecedented levels of stress, eventually upsetting its systemic equilibrium.

Our skies, lands and oceans are being trashed with poisonous industrial waste. Intensive farming practices are destroying the habitat of many animal and plant species, dooming them to premature extinction. As a result, climate patterns have begun to fluctuate violently, with dramatic short-term consequences for ourselves and for the entire ecosystem.

2. Human problems

The second kind of problems involve the human condition and the development of human consciousness. Unfortunately, most people in the world have not evolved to the level of consciousness necessary to understand point 1. The majority of us has not yet learned to think systemically and therefore cannot understand the complex web of relations that binds our future with that of the biosphere.

This is because we’ve either been slowed down by adverse conditions of existence (war, poverty, ignorance), or else duped back to stupidity by decades of consumerist lifestyle (mass-entertainment, drugs, disinformation).

3. Governance problems

The third and less obvious problem is that our governing class is corrupted to the core with money coming in from the lobbies and the financial elites. It is less obvious because those groups also control the judiciary and the media, and can easily erase their tracks or deceive the public opinion when needed.

The oligarchs are well aware of problems 1 and 2, but are not working in the interest of the people. They see humanity as a problem and have little sympathy the rest of us.

From up in their ivory tower, they are (and always have been) conspiring on how to most effectively control the masses and dispose of those they don’t need.