I am sitting here in this British Heatwave with the freedom and economic security to look after myself, rest, drink fluids, sit in front of a fan and dare I say it have an ice cream.
And then with the heat just getting too much, the top of my arms burning and I’m not even sitting out in the sun. I am very angry.
For somewhere in the World there is a child who is under ten, perhaps even five or six, working in these temperatures. Probably bonded labour, sold by parents who could not afford to feed or clothe them. No comfort, no relief from the burning sun, only given whatever relief they need to keep them working. No freedom to move, no freedom to take a drink when they want , no shelter, just the pain of repetitive work that there small hands are good at doing. I have no doubt that these conditions still exist , because Iqbal was killed by the Child Labour Lobby in Pakistan. Child Labour was seen as necessary, part of the economy.
My thoughts lament this situation .
In this intolerable heat in the UK with holiday makers out and about, queuing on motorways, people arguing about their routes. Families stopping at overcrowded service areas where suddenly the workers staffing them are overloaded by the demands put on them. Full waste bins, rubbish being dumped unceremoniously on grass areas. Queues for toilets and shortages of all sorts of things. Tempers fray and children cry
” This is the worst holiday ever……”
Perhaps they are right. Perhaps we should be glad that we can live in a society that they have the freedom to choose what they like and dislike and what they will put up with, and they have the right to complain.
With all this talk of AI making everything better, can we link it somehow to allocating resources efficiently so little children do not need to be bonded and that the heat of the sun is converted to better energy both to protect us from it’s harmful rays and create better ways of manufacturing the goods we need.
Then when we reach that Nirvana state where everyone is looked we can consider the demise of the planet that we live on , for indeed that day will surely come.
The billionaires of today want an escape route, but I think that is very naive. They should be looking at the World as it is now and ensuring the health and wealth of all. For that is our future.
Namaste and Thank You for Reading.đ
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