THE FUTURE IS BLEAK

I find it very, very hard, and it almost impossible to feel optimistic about the future.

Truth be known, I am very, very worried about the future. I look and think about what lies ahead with fear and trepidation. I more and more think of the fact, that in these times of uncertainty, we are living day by day and month by month rather than year by year.

Everywhere around the world there is danger, uncertainty, conflict both passive and active – with voice and with weapons. I wonder where it is all going to end, and to my way of thinking Armageddon is very real.

Things are getting away from humanity.

Within my heart I hope against hope that the future will hold good for our children and for their children. It matters not so much for me because I have lived a full life, but for our children and particularly our grandchildren there is a lot of life ahead if circumstances allow a future.

Increasingly we’re talking of war and conflict. It seems that the inevitability of a major worldwide war is almost upon us. There is hardly a place in the world where conflict and physical skirmish all the way through to the Russian – Ukraine war are not taking place.

In most of the “liberated“ countries of Africa, there is Civil War, famine, major illness, and displaced populations of people numbering in their tens and hundreds of thousands. There are countless boats overcrowded with refugees, trying to flee across the Mediterranean to Greece, Italy, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and all the other countries of Europe. Within those countries with the huge and mixed populations there is also danger civil disobedience and upset.

China and India are hugely populated, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and other countries of Asia and Southeast Asia are so and full of people at one wonders if there is any open space left at all.

Here in Australia we only have a population of 26 1/2 million. But that number is growing by hundreds of thousands of migrants every year. While Australia is a vast country, about 90% of it is uninhabitable meaning that our C boards from Cooktown in Queensland all the way around to Geraldton Western Australia are overcrowded with dense. populations.

We are faced in Australia with a growing divide between the affluent and the poor. I debt along with Want and spending is on the rise and destitution and economic frailty is evermore manifest.

Be at north, south east or west, in Australia regionally throughout the southern normal northern hemisphere of crime is ever more prevalent, people are ever more selfish and the decent qualities of humanity ever more disappearing.

Environmentally, water saver more polluted, human waste and byproducts evermore contaminating, sea levels are rising, the Arctic and Antarctic are in meltdown, the world is getting hotter, bushfires are raging, floods, pestilence and earthquake along with hurricanes, cyclones, tsunami’s, loss of natural vegetation and habitat, extinction of species, and the grinding down of our planet, Does nothing but cement thoughts of gloom and doom.

I would like to think that there is hope for the future. However, that is becoming evermore hard to see and a future that’s positive seems to be shrinking into the background becoming a little more than a pipe dream.