Gaia Capitalist

Pearl S. Buck said, “The greatness of a nation is measured by how it treats its weak and vulnerable.” The measure of humanity is how we care for our children.

2007 must be the year we put the safety, health and welfare of our world’s children first. The mothers of the world need to collectively put our hands on our hips, stomp our feet, and say “No more!”. We will not allow one more child killed in war. We we will not tolerate one more child dying of starvation when we have more food than we need. We will not condone spending our tax dollars and precious resources on weapons throughout the world when children need health care and schools.

It’s always about the children. Everything. Always. As mothers and fathers we give our own children unconditional love, we protect them, we would die for them. But, we are turning our back on our world’s children, orphans we are making from our wars, abandoning orphans from an epidemic we could conquer if we set our minds to it. Who cares for them? Who cares that they are suffering at our own hands and neglect?

We are the adults. What we (everyone) are doing to our children is illegal in a civilized society. We must say this year no more. No more bombing and landmines, no more car bombs and executions. No more killing. Our children are fragile, like delicate seedlings. We have no right to inflict our problems on them. We have no right to destroy their childhoods because we care so little for their value. None of us have the right to look away just because it’s not our own children who are suffering.

The world’s children are our future. No humanitarian organization has helped children more than UNICEF. They do it because children have rights, the world has set goals for children, poverty reduction starts with children and no child should die needlessly from preventable causes (29,000 children a day at last count).

2007 must be the year we turn our attention to growing food and energy for our children. Instead of bombing their homelands, we need to turn the land over for cultivation. We need to find ways to clarify the air they breathe, purify the water they drink, grow the food they need to grow into tomorrow.

We each just have one mother and one father, but we all have many children.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on earth. May 2007 be the year of peace.