Where on Earth Will We All Stand?

 

Having watched recently several programmes detailing the way our society is heading towards and is becoming overloaded with the elderly with ever-increasing speed.

With billions being spent on drugs and therapeutic remedies for all the ailments of old age, centenarians regularly now adoring the dinnertime screens of news channels to show us that they are now running marathons on a regular basis with good health to spare, which is in full contrast to the news articles I remember from my adolescence of centenarians receiving the queens telegram with it being handed to the recipient by a magnolia aproned carer with more hair spray than was really worth it. These old folks would be sat in a chair, could barely breath let alone stand to gratefully receive the accolade being bestowed upon them.

 

Is this the result of what we all pay for and want?

The medicine of long life!

We are now living in a world where living standards are unexpectedly higher than they were leaving the world with many many people in their 70’s, 80’s and way beyond who are still working, going to the gym ( not that going to the gym is the elixr of life in itself) after all it was an apparently very wise Chinese proferssor who stated that “heart only get so many beats-stop jogging-take nap-live long”.

We have a society where most sensible folk know how to do a good version of life saving CPR.

Where as years ago if somebody fell to the ground somebody would shout “ is there a doctor in the crowd?.

 

We have drugs to ward off disease and lifelimiting illnesses to stop the person from dying. We have developed diets and foods to prevent heart disease. We are now educated in a way that excesses are frowned upon “although still widely partaken off in many society’s.

 

It was widely reported that as from October of 2014 the world, from that point onward was going to start running behind with its food resources, meaning we can from that point no longer grow enough food to meet demand. It doesn’t however mean that we are all going to instantly starve and start fighting in the isles for the last loaf on the shelf, but it does mean that more and more habitat needs to be destroyed on a daily and yes, Daily basis to plant more crops than ever before.

A large majority of the farmland already made available be intensive deforestation of jungle is being used for the palm-oil production instead of crops of wheat, maize beans and other instantly edible crops.

 

It is used in the manufacturing of foodstuffs and cosmetics and is known to promote heart attacks and poor health, but it is a cheap alternative to olive oil.  The reason it is grown in such quantities is due to a fast crop that is easy to grow and has a high yield per tree and a high profit margin.

We in the west live, by comparison a charmed life of electric lighting, readily available food and transport, whereas a lot of the farmers of these palm oil plantations don’t even rely on food being available to them at the end of a working day.

So, to be offered more money per kilo of oil crop is to them a lifeline as these figures are paid to them by the large multi-nationals who then go on to make the real profits after the product has been cleaned, purified and made ready for the food industry.

 

In the UK, we are currently watching on our evening news reals that there are so many houses going up on what was earmarked or labelled as brown-belt land or green-belt land, this was land set aside that was not for industrial, commercial or social development. But has fallen foul of planning laws and ever more corrupt local councils who will sell land to developers for the highest bid and we dare not protest or dare hug a tree for fear of legal reprisal.

We have the wrong kind of protesters in England who mainly consist of young anarchists with dreadlocks, a habit for cannabis, cocaine, starting fights over anything they don’t understand and none of them it would seem have ever heard of soap, let alone deodorant.

 

Yes, sure we have a process where we can sign a petition online and once it hits 100k it is supposed to be discussed in parliament as a legitimate item in the house. Although I’ve yet to see or hear of any of the petitions ever being discussed.

 

England isn’t running out of land to build on, we are in a climate of the rich buying properties and renting them out at inflated prices in poor conditions, and if the local Govt get their benefits paid to them in a timely manner then it makes no odds what kind of condition the house is in.

Infrastructure is always a last consideration on any build in the UK. They promise new doctors surgeries, new shops, new play areas, roads that can cope with a sudden influx of more cars that need to join major trunk roads to commute.

 

The government to which vast sums of money are being paid in taxes are not building in the UK. It is private companies who have bid for land. Who them pay the government even more money. “step away from the politics Karl” sorry!

We have the social problem of so many care homes full of the elderly who aren’t sick but just old and infirm. We have a global population of wrinklys who are being called gravedodgers by the harshest cruel children of these people who want or need the funds left in wills to have a life rather than making a life for themselves but death of old age isn’t happening quite so fast theses days. All that is happening with the elderly now is, the caribean and costa-del-biddy appartments while its cold here and back to their owned houses for the summer to attend the gardens and maintenance.

 

Around the world we are all living a lot longer than ever before and soon there will be no money to look after us all. Nowhere for us all to live and no food for us all to eat, and its all been pursuant of longer life and drugs that stop you from dying when nature would otherwise have had you take your last breath at a ripe old age.

 

Fandango x