Us against them.
It’s scarcity again:
the one, critical ignorance
that may do us in.
The fear-based scrabble
for oil, coltan or diamonds,
wherein homeboy heroes
unleash laser-guided,
indiscriminate death
from air-conditioned cockpits
to secure special advantage
for corporate paymasters
paying token taxes.

The days of permitted ignorance
come to an end now.
Wake up! the universe screams:
icecaps are melting and
hurricanes a coming,
trade towers collapsing
and schoolboys shootin’ classmates.
Torture is public policy.
Crude radiological bombs
and economic collapse loom
like terrifying banshees
in the desperate darkness.

After thousands of years
comes now our darkest hour,
our defining moment,
for we must choose now.
The core integrity of humanity
is called to question as
we must now realize
Human knowledge only now has the power
to durably, safely and sustainably
eliminate scarcity of essential resources…
for the first time and forever.
We have engineering proof,
facts on the ground,
and only a genuine,
collective commitment
of all for all
will lead us
to a sane and stable world.
Wake up! or perish.

Fail to act…
continue the desperate momentum
of competition for resources
and we’ll destroy not just our dignity,
not just our illusion of moral integrity,
but our very lives.
Wake up! or perish.
Us against them don’t never win.

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