Right-wing conservative governments are killing the world while silencing the majority

History has many lessons to teach us, but who wants to know? When visions of WWII and the Holocaust are shown, my thoughts turn to how placidly people boarded the trains to their deaths. To be so willing to obey a handful of soldiers with guns, many thousands would rather live a little longer than die for their cause. Now it’s about climate change and the worst holocaust of all, the mass extinction of life on earth.

People object and experts in the field shout it from the highest platform they can climb, but conservative politicians are like a brick wall of resistance. The latter seem to be concerned only with staying in power and pleasing the big polluters who fund them.

Those who pointed their guns at the masses and forced them into situations from which there was no escape seemed unaware. How much they resemble politicians who only serve their jobs and protect their income, which mostly comes from big business.

In Australia, the new Federal Government measure is to issue prison terms and withdraw welfare payments from anyone who protests. That’s so much like pre-WWII Germany that it’s not funny, nor should it be tolerated. People are scared and rightly so.

Protesters against climate change face the wrath of governments who arrest them and deal with them in court. Many are locked up and heavy fines and other penalties are also issued. So where is the justice? How can judges ignore the will of those who oppose the death sentence they are serving us? After all, they too will die.

Argument after argument is made to avoid the theme that we are on a slippery slope until the last days. While food shortages were joined by massive fires; floods droughts; winds and diseases; are on the rise, the decline in insects means it will only get worse. When there is less food and water.

Desalination and the depletion of life in the oceans must also be part of an unsustainable future. With alternatives available, the question is why are most sitting around and waiting for their lives to end in such circumstances? While writing about this topic is a form of protest, it is also important that less educated people are informed. The majority have to speak louder and overthrow the conservative governments that are killing us.