But you can't bomb it into peace.

Those are the words that keep going round and round my head. After watching a video made by Greenpeace as a tribute to the Rainbow Warrior (The ship the French sunk in New Zealand), I thought about how badly we're damaging our planet. I'm a Greenpeace member, but I've only really started getting interested in it. You'd think that by now our governments would stop being so childish and get their act together. But instead, Britian starts the process of renewing TRIDENT (nuclear defence system), the USA still refuses to sign an agreement to cut CO2 emissions (no surprises there, they never sign anything unless it diresctly helps them), the Japanese keep killing Whales and the 'Anti terror war' is still raging between the West and Middle East. By now, after Worlds Wars 1 and 2, the fruitless Veitnam war, the Falklands war, the First gulf war... and many others, our governments should have learnt that war solves nothing. Ironically, the cause of recent terror attacks is Americas stupid "War on Terror"! But still the western countries justify the deaths of over 100 innocent civilians ever day in the middle east with the fact that they're apparently all terrorists. 9/11 and 7/7/05 in total killed less than 1000 people (I'm not saying that's ok), the war in Iraq has killed over 5000 innocent people. Let me ask you this. Is it really worth it? Emotionally, financially, physically...

Of course, what the governments fail to see is the impact they have on everyday life. Only today I was walking back from the hairdressers when I heard an 8 year old say to his mum "When I grow up I want to be a soldier so I can shoot people like they do on the news!".
Sorry, but am I the only person who is disturbed by this?
Next time we have a reffurendum please vote for the option that means NOT blowing each other up, or NOT blowing up the planet.

Thankyou.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/photosvideos/videos/bomb-the-world
Thats the video if anyone's interested.