The Green New Deal: Part I

“There are those who believe… that life here… began out there. Far across the universe. With tribes of humans… who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians… or the Toltecs… or the Mayans… that they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids… or the lost civilizations of Lemuria… or Atlantis… Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man… who even now fight to survive… somewhere beyond the heavens.

“Fleeing from the Cylon Tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest — -for a shining planet, known as Earth.” (Opening and closing lines from the TV series, Battlestar Galactica, by ABC, 1978)

With those noble words — -the opening narration read by Patrick Macnee, the closing by Lorne Greene — -a TV space opera was launched. It had a dystopian view of mankind’s future: being chased by a large fleet of robots/androids named Cylons, designed and built long ago by a now-extinct reptilian species, also named the Cylons. The robotic cylons have one goal: the extinction of humanity.

In today’s non-sci-fi world, we are the precipitators of our own very possible extinction. Driven by aggression, territorial in nature, consumed by greed, our so-called leaders have created cultures where exploiting the Earth for short-term and evanescent gain is seen as perfectly acceptable, even admirable. Medals…