Tabi: Is Man Earth's Most Destructive Creature?

Tabi: Is Man Earth's Most Destructive Creature?: Imagine that the children languishing in refugee camps in Somalia, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq included the child of Queen Rani...

Is Man Earth's Most Destructive Creature?

Imagine that the children languishing in refugee camps in Somalia, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq included the child of Queen Rania of Jordan, David Cameron, Hassan Rouhani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimire Putin, Xi Jinping, Obama, Ban Ki Monn, and the families of other world leaders.

  

Without any doubt, the 20^th Century closed with seeming departure from the somewhat dog-eat-dog and gun-boat politics landscape that characterized the four centuries before it. The result was the disruption of the scrambles for territories and the race for arms proliferation by the emergence of economies of mass competitiveness whose expectant posture is economies of mass collaboration. But limitations to possibilities of irrationalities, diminished by a global character marked by technological recklessness is responsible for artificial human suffering, hunger, poverty and forced migration and war rife in our present world. We can therefore; comfortably say the man has become earth’s most destructive creature.

Guns were invited by the early man to hunt and prey on animals as food. Unfortunately, today, guns are no longer objects for animal hunting but tools to kill man by his fellow man. Animals which were initial targets of man’s guns appear to even be more sane and peaceful than man himself. Could the sanity of animals soon give them the space dominate man’s insanity and gain legitimacy to run the affairs of the world? Most of our education on safety directs man’s sense of security to natural disasters, human accidents and hunger. But the untold truth is that human and environmental destruction from direct and indirect human activities and manmade weapons, amount to an overwhelming deficiency limiting human development, global prosperity, human happiness and hope. 

Unthinkable about human is the negligence and perpetual direct human killings by powerful people humans against weaker ones for irrational motives. Present records indicate that direct killing of children, women, and men in the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Israel-Palestine, Nigeria and Myanmar to mention just a few, surpass deaths recorded from all recent natural disasters in the last one decade including the Tsunamis in South East Asia, earthquakes in Japan and Philippines, hurricanes, cyclones and bush fires in USA, Australia and Spain, mudslides in Brazil, Philippines and Indonesia and the floods in China, Taiwan and Madagascar.

Perhaps, so unfortunately, death tolls in the Syrian conflict according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, amount to a staggering 115 thousand people. In Sudan, death toll is estimated to be 300 thousand people by the BBC, against Umar Al Bashir’s claim of 10 thousand deaths only. While in Egypt, death tolls are above 1 thousand by 2013 globalpost calculations. Somalia conflicts amount up to 400 thousand deaths according to the Vancouver Sun. This is not to mention the deaths in Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bahrain, Algeria, Uganda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Mali, Myanmar, Tibet, Turkey, Israel, Palestine and Russia to mention just these few.  

From this violence, we can acknowledge that man’s knowledge is losing two of the most salient aspects that make man human – rational thinking and emotional intelligence. The competition for self interest has overwhelmingly dominated the voice of concerns for elimination of global poverty, diseases, illiteracy, corruption, insecurity and hunger. As the key actors in the corridors of Damascus, Tehran, Kremlin, Beijing and Washington wrangle and disagree over the right and wrong of our world, the result are played out in the suburbs of Aleppo, Mogadishu, Kabul and Gaza. If every gun will be replaced for a basket of food, human annihilation by artificial activities and the pains that accompany it will rather be converted into happiness, hope and peace of mind that makes our world much prepared to combat natural disasters and control of the surplus of food that will accrue from a new volume of food production against a diminishing amount of guns. There is never a good war and there is never a bad peace. Human’s quest to own and control more tools of violence have only made us “violent wise” and “peace foolish”. This dismisses our consciousness about our own reality of existence, making man earth’s number one enemy. The treats of manmade artificial disasters threaten man’s own very existence more than any known challenge to our globe. The call is to hand down all the guns, convert all revenues and human effort invested into research, design and deployment of destructive arsenals such as guns, nuclear heads and chemical weapons, into use for research for food production, health improvement, hunger elimination, environmental sustainability and enhancement of human happiness, hope, peace of mind and global cooperation. A report by Brookings extracted from book titled “atomic audit”: the cost and consequences of U.S nuclear weapons since 1940, indicate that an estimated construction costs for more than 1,000 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) launch pads and silos, and support facilities, from 1957 – 1964 amounted to $ 14, billions. This is an annual budget of 25 African countries combined and an amount capable of providing three comfortable square meals for every individual in Africa for three straight years. If there was a time for our world to rethink and redefine what it means to be human, and deliver on posterity, this is the time. Our world is sick of our own excesses. But we are sicker of the world’s diminishing value. The york of human happiness must be eaten but we must accept to crack the shell of our reality. For everything that we have the power to chose, we have the power to change.

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Ten Lessons from Egypt to Autocratic African Leaders!

Perhaps, it would have not been thought possible that the revolution that started in Tunisia would be alive till date. The contagion that followed it spread through Algeria, Libya, Sudan, and Egypt in North Africa and then to Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria in the Middle East. The contagious effects occasioned by popular demands of the people that unmasked the face of dogmatism and brought an end to the tyranny of a few of Africa’s notorious oppressive regimes. Consequently, Tunisia's Zine El Abidine Ben Ali renounced power under the pressure of mass protests and fled to abroad. President Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, met his demise while attempting to resist the Benghazi led popular demands; then came the fall of president Hosni Mubarak, who is presently languishing in jail on charges of treason, and corruption. The fall of these figures proved the reality that even such giants of Northern Africa often looked at as hard nuts to crack, were as malleable as their subjects. The spirit of revolution that swept off these unshakable gladiators only proved that no power or might can short down the voice of the people. 

From these lessons, serving African leaders are getting anxiously aware that their armored tanks which they often resolve to as tactics for public intimidation and suppression could kill people but can never kill the voice of the people. The present trends in Egypt, where Mohammed Morsi, elected in a majority vote with 51% victory, is deposed by the people with support from the Egyptian military, demonstrates a paradigm shift in African political thought process. While some quarters have termed it a democratic betrayal it seems to others, a timely inevitability in hams way. It epitomizes a test of democratic ethos threatened in a climate of mediocrity. For all that, history tells us that popular demands are a force to reckon with. Power hungry leaders often get trapped into the over-acceleration-power-trap. As says John Dalberg-Acton, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This phenomenon has been alive in the continent with fervent patronage from political elites and their cronies whom under the guise of partisanship, smack at demands for positive change with brutishness with utmost impunity. But results of popular take-overs are beginning to yield fruitful results. We have seen it happening in Egypt. The world watches with kin interest as the people insisted against the force of a ruthless Morsi's regime which too soon got its Achilles heels hard hit. 

Could the pendulum of change be swinging at president El Bashir of  Sudan, Joseph Kabila of DRC, Paul Biya of Cameroon, Yuweri Museveni of Uganda, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, to mention only a few. do I need to remind anyone that these are a few of many long serving African dictators? This questions are answered in the next paragraphs. watch out for it.

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