OMG it's the European Union and MTV to the Rescue~

Introduction:

First, please imagine an immense crowd of young girls and boys of every nation, race and family in the world standing in a great foyer, waiting to be called through the door where they will be born into the world as it will be later in this 21st century.

They don't "exist" in our time/space matrix, but like images on a long reel of movie film, they exist "in potentia," as philosophers used to say, just as surely as you or I "exist" like the images currently being viewed my an audience at a cinema.

What these young people have in common is:

1. They are not yet conceived or born and

2. They will inherit the earth and human societies that we leave as our legacy for them.

3. They are therefore dependent upon us for much of the good or bad conditions they experience in their lives.

Cases in point: Due to one cause or another, sea levels are rising. Kids born on low-lying islands or coastal plains may find their lives disrupted as their parents have to leave behind a way of life and find refuge in some new and perhaps inhospitable place.

Due to bad planning, kids may find themselves living in the shadow of a huge, leaky dam that's ready to collapse and inundate a million or more homes and workplaces. Not a good legacy, is it?

Due to stubborn and misguided diplomacy, children are born into a world where their homeland is subjugated by a stronger neighbor, and their future education and even nourishment may depend on the policies of their dominant neighbors. Not a great way to spend your life, is it?

Due to long-festering hatred and centuries of attacks and reprisals, some children may be born in refugee camps, destined for hunger, thirst, overcrowding, lack of education, lack of schooling, and lack of basic human rights. They will succumb to starvation, malnutrition, or depression and die unfulfilled and unmourned, and perhaps unburied.

My Personal Contribution, and the

Brilliant Idea of the EU-MTV Agreement

To solve this, I have renamed myself "DrWaug," and I have decided to be the spokesperson for the WAUG Kids, and I instituted "Save the WAUG Kids" around January 2008, and began my construction of "http://bostonmusicianscoop.com" and registered "http://worldmusiciansmovement" as a future website to unite musicians worldwide in a common effort to create new music that will lift the minds and hearts of humanity to assure two goals:

My Twin Goals:

Fixing our Legacy for the Sake of the WAUG Kids

1. To make humans behave more humanely toward others and

2. To make humans behave more respectfully toward our shared planet, Earth.

Nature demands that we work together. Otherwise we see that ugly aspect of human nature surging up around us: Suicide bombings, invasions of other nations by dominant nations, genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced starvation, and cruelty and hatred acted out wholesale across the globe.

Nature has given huma beings a planet with fresh air, fresh water, fruitful fields, bounteous oceans filled with a variety of coordinated, balanced aquatic life, and human beings have attacked the forests, polluted the rivers and lakes, savaged the creatures of the sea, and filled the atmosphere with new and toxic kinds of fumes and particulate matter, soot and salts that will drift about and settle out over centuries with serious consequences for the plants and animals, including the human species itself. Lead in the water and mercury vapors in the air are known for the way they destroy nervous systems and the human brain. Carbonic acid and sulfuric- and nitric- laced rain are currently destroying monuments, bridges, dams and roadways, and the concentration of these corrosive materials is growing steadily as years pass. Nature gives, and nature takes away.

Apes, monkeys, whales, dolphins, sharks and flounders, tigers, gorillas, elephants, parrots, humming birds, owls and buzzards, geese and ducks, frogs and toads, bears and wolves all have roles to play in the fabric of earthly life. Not one of these species is capable of destroying humanity. Not one is pouring toxic sludge into rivers. Not one is concentrating lead and mercury, cadmium and plutonium and depositing it in the earth, water, or air. Not one of these species or any of their "lower animals" or "primitive plant" cousins is guilty of ethnic cleansing, genocide, aerial bombings, gas attacks, hi-jacking relief supplies or food aid. Not one of these species has ever declared war on another, blacklisted opponents, imprisoned other animals or plants for their attitudes, opinions, or religious beliefs.

Only one species is considered a truly "Higher Animal." Yet that same species acts in ungodly ways, ingeniously concocts nerve gas, thermonuclear books, cluster books, land mines, and torture chambers.

It's a shame that so many human beings have to suffer because of the inhumanity of so many other human beings. It is a terrifying idea that all living things, human and non-human, can be exterminated by the actions of humans. But if the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is so roundly attacked by people who have never read its reports, or those who stand depend on carbon-burning processes to maintain their own wealth or way of life refuse to change their ways because of their personal commitment to the comforts carbon fuels produce, and humanity continues to pour millions of tons on carbon dioxide fumes into the atmosphere each year, humanity will have accomplished the "impossible" -- it will be the first species ever to actually destroy itself completely and bring about a world-wide collapse of a million or more species. leaving a desolate, storm-wracked planet with deserts where their used to be farms, grasslands and forests, and overheated polar regions devoid of ice, and mountain tops without snow and vast stretches of ocean, lakes and rivers without whales, sharks, tuna, cod salmon and seahorses, marlin, manatees, sturgeon, mackerel, and the dam-building beavers and fish-eating bears, seals and walruses we have grown to enjoy.

There will be no buzz on the Internet. No cell phones. No housing crisis or foreclosures, for there will be no people. The last of the population will go unburied. The dead forests will stand leafless and quiet, no birdsong, no chatter of squirrels.

Is this what our legacy will finally be?

The WAUG (What About Us? Generations) of Kids (who will be trying to grow into a decent life when they are finally conceived, carried and born in thirty or more years) are begging us to do something. As they enter their period of existence on the damaged planet, they will ask, "What didn't they do something before it was too late? Why did they listen to those fools who rejected what their best scientists told them? Why did they refuse to listen? The books were all out there - why didn't they read? Why did presidents and prime ministers and kings turn their back and allow the ruin and chaos to continue? Why didn't religious or philosophical or artistic leaders say something, condemn something, forbid something that was leading to our doom?

Maybe someone is finally doing something. The flawed and faulty European Union, unable to tackle many of its own disagreements, has reached out to MTV, the music television network, to join in making music young people will like, with an added dimension: the lyrics will educate young people about climate change, how real it is, how humanity is responsible for the worst of it, and how they can bring about change. Now if only they would add the other dimension, the need to be kind, forgiving, tolerant and humane to other people. Wow, would that be a great idea. But something is a lot better than nothings, and making music that slows pollution may at least slow down if not eliminate the process of planetary suicide that's currently underway.

To see what the EU and MTV plan to do, go to their website: http://www.mtvplay4climate.eu