by Raymond Ponzini

Those who own and control the banking systems and corporations, those who control the governments and fight the wars for profit, those who are driven by greed and power madness are destroying our earth. The corporate capitalist paradigm of endless extraction from the planet and every person and every living thing will continue until the ecosystem is irreparably damaged and can no longer sustain life.

The destruction of our planet began with the detonation of the first atomic bomb. The psychopaths who rule over poor enslaved humankind and their fragile beautiful planet, care only for power and profit. They have since tested over a thousands atomic bombs showering mostly the northern hemisphere with radiation, which has contributed to cancer and birth defects.

The first big nuclear reactor melt down was in the Russian city Chernobyl, and it too spread massive amounts of radiation over the northern hemisphere causing a great increase in thyroid cancers and birth defects. Although Chernobyl was the largest nuclear disaster at that point in history, Gaia, our living earth, was able to withstand the release of radiation over great swaths of land and still continue to sustain life.

In the gulf of Mexico humankind drove a great steel pipe into the sea floor like a spear, puncturing a vast chamber that had laid undisturbed perhaps since the formation of the planet. One could say Gaia had been wounded and her blood flowed out into the bounteous Gulf, polluting it perhaps forever. Thankfully the rest of the ocean's ecosystems were spared, only because the shape of the Gulf limits the rate at which the chemicals escape to mix with the Pacific and Atlantic.

Then Fukishima happened. It didn't have to happen, it was pure corporate greed. Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing, the 'Mark 1' was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident. Tragically for the earth and humanity, corporate greed always rules over reason and sanity. The Mark 1 was built on a fault line where tidal waves sometimes occur.

Fukushima may be more than Gaia can withstand. There were three reactors cores that melted down into the earth, into the water table. The reactors were built on the Japanese coast at the base of a sloping landmass. The rain that falls on the island percolates down to the water table and flows through the reactor cores, and into the Pacific ocean. According to those who sail and fish the Pacific, it is a lifeless dead ocean. The Pacific ocean covers over half the earth. The ocean currents of the Pacific mix with the Atlantic and eventually it too will die.

Tiny creatures called phytoplankton that live near the surface of the oceans produce more oxygen than all the forests combined times three. Humanity has deforested, destroyed most of the rainforests of the earth and the oxygen production for all life has been reduced. If the radioactive cores can't be removed from the ground water flowing into the Pacific, it could eventually kill the Phytoplankton and all life in the cradle of life, the sea.

Our corporate greed, power, enslavement, extraction, based civilization will destroy itself and the earth if allowed to continue along its present course. Humanity's only hope of saving our beautiful blue green island in space is to immediately combine resources to retrieve the reactor cores. If this can be accomplished humanity must abandon our system based on wasteful consumption of resources including life itself, a system that profits on war and death and the destruction of the earth.

The sixth mass extinction is in progress. Animals are going extinct 100 to 10,000 times faster than the normal rate, about 10 to 25 species per year. Researchers claim that we are in the middle of a mass extinction event faster than the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs.

The bees are dying. It's becoming nearly impossible to pollinate our crops. Without bees there will be no fruits, nuts, and other vital foods and most of humanity will starve. There is little time left to awaken and be free, little time left to save the earth.

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