All Along the Watchtower

All Along The Watchtower

Tony Jolley @ home

16.6.2022

Our Springs are certainly more silent.

Rachel Carson was right.

Others, ranged all along the watchtowers of research

Into every ‘ology’ [thank you BeaTtie!]  or ‘ography’

Are now most emphatically in agreement:

The Anthropocene is Mankind’s last Last Stand.

But this ‘battle’ is different.

It’s not a case of ‘Us’ v ‘Them’

So much as ‘Us’ v ‘Us’.

One of ‘Us’ has to win

And all of us will win or lose

Depending upon which ‘Us’ wins.

Will it be a return from the brink,

Where, as Chief Seattle put it as far back as 1854,

We would be forced to face up to a future

Between Life or survival (or worse)?

Will the threat of extinction

Be enough to energise us all into action?

And will that action be enough…

Or too little too late?

As I see it

It is all about whether we want

Our future enough to willingly reign in our present.

There is hope that we can and we will:

JFK (& Ted Sorensen his speechwriter) said:

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“Our problems are manmade. ***

Therefore, they can be solved by man.

And man can be as big as he wants.

No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings”

The Sunday School line learned from Deuteronomy springs to mind:

‘I set before you Life and Death… therefore choose Life.’

Let’s choose the latter

And sooner rather than later.