El tema para la comunidad del IB: "Nuestra humanidad: una realidad compartida"

Its not a matter of could cause disaster as its a matter that it is causing disaster. Humanity feels it has exempted itself from the idea of nature, you are constantly hit with lines like 'man has conquered' this and beaten that! We as people are bound to nature no less then a fish is bound to water. If we are to survive we must realize that at such a rate we destroy, exploit and damage the environment the quicker we can find solutions to real problems. Humanity first does not play by the rules of nature, we firstly destroy our competition for the sake of making them dead. Second we destroy the competition for our food to make it our own so things like monoculture, which does not occur in nature. The Basic principle is take what is needed and leave the rest, thirdly we deny access to food to our competitors. For instance a lion will defend its kill but it won't defend the heard as its own. This basically sums that the world wasn't made for one species. That diversity exists. For if all animals acted as we do there would be no diversity, there would be one species per trophic level; the strongest. This systematic destruction of diversity is being seen on a global scale and is reaching a pandemic rate of reaction which is frightening to say the least. The ripples of the Cold War are still being felt and Capitalism taking its monetary value on human destruction to a new low we are at a time in which the global mindset needs to be shifted to a more sustainable thought pattern. Humanitarianism cannot in full affect work if we at home are not taking the necessary preventative steps. How can we help a Third World Country if yet we suffer from our own political quagmires of shilled lies and political jargon? The idea of profits before people is sickening and is a trend that humanity could do without. The general populace has power to change this, and it will be the general populace that needs to do so. We have had organisations and programs to further these sorta morals, but once more the politics of it all slow it down, the failed League of Nations and the not so much better United Nations can only do so much. 

Investment in infrastructure is needed, Ethiopia comes to mind as such. With one of the worlds places funded by many NGOs and aid programs the society has become reliant on such band-aid solutions. We may help them one drought, two drought but now the numbers have grown leading to a even bigger fall in the face of ever apprent drought. The need to invest in long term infrastructure is key to the long term fix to these problems. However the mindset that if you build it you must mantain it needs to change as well, we need to help in what ways we can but we must also leave with the knowledge we went in and shared. Corrupttian is also a sad statement, we donate and donate money, food, shelters, blankets and a myriad of necessities however the percent reaching those who need it is severly lower then what is portrayed. With this I myself sometimes hesitate even donating money to organisations for if I am just paying for those new AK's for some new warlord or feeding some rebel army while its people starve am I really solving the problem? You can't throw money and aid at these things, and when the people of the Western powers realise this the better.

I suppose it boils down to a few key ideas:
-The need for humanities few of its place in the world to change
-The need for sustainable living practices
-The need for peoples well being before profit
-The hope that we can achieve said goals
-The electorate to realise I am not a module in a system to be seen as some statistic

Comments, responses and ideas welcome.