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To Preserve Our Standard Of Living

from Blood Is On Our Hands by Active Minds

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Our modern lifestyle comes at a vast cost which is frequently hidden from us. The planet’s natural resources, along with its less fortunate inhabitants, are ruthlessly exploited to provide so many of the things that we now take for granted.
The result is an eco-system which is teetering on the point of collapse, and 700 million people live in extreme poverty on less than $1.90 a day. Our shiny new gadgets are built using materials extracted using child labour, and when we throw away the stuff we decide we no longer need it’s often shipped and dumped in some of the poorest countries in the world. There, those who are desperate try to scrape together some sort of living by scavenging on the dumps to look for materials they can salvage for sale. There are few safety measures and no income security.
The global economic system is built on this model of exploitation and short-term thinking, which world leaders have no idea how to turn away from. At the most recent global Climate Change Conference, COP27, there was once again a universal acknowledgement that human activity is damaging the climate and risking the viability of life on Earth as we know it. But when it comes to actually changing that activity then, as always seems to be the case, nobody wants to commit to do it.
Because so much of our progress has been achieved through the unconstrained exploitation of cheap and abundant fossil fuels, and nobody wants to halt this progress, then we seem condemned to continue along this path, even though it is creating an ecological catastrophe. The international community desperately needs a plan to wean ourselves off the sort of economic thinking that has created the current problems, but it doesn’t seem to have one. And for as long as the most severe effects are kept away from the more affluent countries there seems little impetus for change.

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To preserve our standard of living
Horrors take place in our name.
The public, afraid to look at the truth,
Turn a blind eye to the shame.

To preserve our standard of living
Our culture surrounds us with lies
To justify acts which inevitably
Dictate how the other half dies.

To preserve our standard of living
TV acts as an anaesthetic.
A public obsessed with soap operas
Will always remain apathetic.

To preserve our standard of living
The Earth we depend on is dying.
For how long can we keep ignoring the facts?
For how long can we keep denying?

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from Blood Is On Our Hands, released December 3, 2021

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