Students strike

ON MAY 15, we are again to be subjected to screaming chanting naivety at its worst, when students again strike for climate change.

For me it will be time to turn off the TV and not purchase newspapers and hide in the bush.

This maniacal ranting is a selfish attitude created by the fear terrorism doomsayers, and which students believe threatens their own securely comfortable lifestyle where they have had everything they want given to them from birth.

They care nothing for the 36 million humans who die every year from starvation, statistically one death every minute of every day of every year.

One billion humans are currently suffering from severe hunger with one child under five years of age dying every 30 seconds.

More humans die from starvation than tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS combined, but does anybody care?

As long as we can maintain our current affluence created by out of control consumerism polluting our planet, and blame global warming for everything.

If these students really cared about the extinction of the human race, I would suggest they become more involved in humanitarian issues and real answers for future energy and survival as a positive way to save suffering humanity and escape their own selfishness.

Perhaps they could expand their studies, (if indeed they are studying), to encompass humanitarian solutions to a massive global problem where billions do not have food, fuel for cooking, transport, sanitation, or water.

This current generation’s selfishness disturbs me, as our chances for a future for all of humanity are diminishing by the day.

It is now a “them or us” attitude where the us comes first.

BRIAN SAYERS, Millmerran