Already wasted morality and the planet…
WHAT’S NEXT?
Shelf life of nation states is over, here comes Wiki-Society
by
Salim Kadıbeşegil
Summary
The book we call Already wasted morality and the planet… WHAT’S NEXT?, we are on our way, seems to be a summary of human history. First of all, this is a “futuristic” book. It looks at least 100 years from now!
In June 2015, I delivered a keynote speech titled “ Already wasted morality and the planet… WHAT’S NEXT?, at the Summit of TEİD Ethics and Reputation Association. In this presentation, which I was inspired by Aşık Veysel’s last poem, I shared with examples why and how we consume morality and the planet. After this presentation, it was necessary to write this book.
Humanity, which started to button the wrong button with the agricultural revolution, has built a “pyramid of evils” for itself and all living things on this planet. Now, it hopes to get assistance from “artificial intelligence”!
The book takes a wide tour around the sustainability tales that are at the top of the agenda in the period we are going through. With these fairy tales, which we fill with different topics such as zero waste, social reports, corporate social responsibility, ESG, claims that we are actually circulating the ball in the midfield. Because claims in the second chapter that the fossil agenda cannot clean up our world, which is polluted with dirty relations, dirty politics and dirty money. The book explains with examples that fossil-minded managers do not intend to abandon their “habits” in all industries. We always see one of the best examples of these heads in the pharmaceutical industry, which has a history of 150 years. I explained my claim that there will be no pharmaceutical companies in 100 years in another speech. (Another keynote at 2012) I included in this book.
Of course, the pests of marketing, which have encoded the culture of consumption in our world that has become a “Mad men” society, are extensively criticized. As a result the consumption habit of each of us “at all costs” has made our surname “climate crisis”!
The book has a showdown with nation states that fail to manage this process well. The book claims that at the end of this century, nation states will disintegrate, disappear. And of course, the United States… Mother nature and father states are on the verge of divorce
The main claim of the book is its analysis of what kind of world we are heading towards in the light of these stories and experiences. On one side of us, the fact that we are buying a ticket to the next period of “survival” because of the reason that abandon our attitudes are “evil habits”… On the other hand, will a new social contract emerge from the bad scenarios? The book discusses this new model of symbiosis, which he calls “Wiki-Society”.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
WHAT DID THEY SAY?
CHAPTER ONE
Bla Bla Bla
The Climate Crisis Is Not On Your Doorstep, It’s Inside the House!
Who is the “Cash Register” in Sustainability Roulette?
Our World Polluted by Dirty Relationships, Dirty Politics and Dirty Money!
The Environment Couldn’t Even Be a Tie to Fossil Heads!
Will Pharmaceutical Companies Remain in a Hundred Years?
Serious Harms of Marketing and the Consumer Society
Why Public Relations Has No History?
The Test of Corporate Power Over Nation States
The Performance Score of Marketing the World’s Trash!
Living with Multiple Identities in a Single Identity World
The United States Empire Disintegrates
New İdendity are the numbers
Searching for New Economic Business Models
Humanity in Search of a New Social Contract
We Always Knocked on the Wrong Door for Solutions!
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Salim Kadıbeşegil
Salim Kadıbeşegil, who has academic and professional background and high references in the field of Strategic Communication Management, pioneered the recognition and placement of the concept of Corporate Reputation Management in our country. Kadıbeşegil regularlywrites articles for Brandmap and IN magazine, the periodical publication of the Ethics and Reputation Association of Turkey, and gives lectures in the Corporate Communication Master’s program of Izmir University of Economics. INBREC is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Society of Brands and Reputations.
Salim Kadıbeşegil was honored with the Honor Roll of Honor in March 2017 by ICCO (International Association of Communication Consultancy Companies) Turkey formation İDA for his contributions to the profession. His work and books have been cited in more than 500 domestic and foreign scientific studies.
Salim Kadıbeşegil has ten books published in his 47 years of experience in the field of communication:
“Basic Principles of Public Relations” 1986
“Public Relations Prescriptions” 1992
“Where to Start Public Relations?” 1997
“The Crisis Says I’m Coming” 2002
“Reputation Management” 2006
“Now is the Time for Strategic Communication” 2009
“The Game is Over” 2012 (Ranked first in the “Best Domestic Futurist Book” list in 2020 by the Futurists Association . )
“What If the Birds Hit the Wind Roses!” 2015 (Blog posts compilation e-book)
“Reputation Management” Anadolu University Open Education Faculty, School of Advertising and Public Relations Textbook 2016
“CORPORATE LESSONS for Bosses, CEOs and Senior Managers” 2019
Kadıbeşegil organizes workshops, gives seminars and gives professional speeches on “Corporate Reputation Management, Crisis Communication Communication Leadership, Strategic Communication Planning, Corporate Social Responsibility”. Kadıbeşegil is the Founder of RepMan Center for Reputation Studies and a member of the Advisory Board.
Where was I inspired?
In the writing of this book, there were tens or even hundreds of sources that I was inspired by as much as my personal observations and experiences. I included most of them in the “bibliography”. But among my main readings, which constitute my main starting point and I “lean on”, so to speak; economist Prof. Dr. Tim Jackson, author Paul Mason, lecturer Tümay Mercan, archaeologist Prof. Dr. İsmail Gezgin, sociologist Manuel Castells, entrepreneur Marc Benioff’s books, author, thinker Prof. Dr. Özgür Uçkan and the works of the valuable names I have mentioned and Youtube speeches should be mentioned in particular. I must say that I have gained intellectual wealth from Bangladeshi banker Mohammed Yunus and social entrepreneur Jeff Skoll, as well as from ASHOKA’s social entrepreneurship practices.
I have been particularly mentioning Prof. Dr. Tim Jackson’s views in my presentations for a long time. I was caught up with the criticism of the policies of countries that support the behavioral emotions underlying the consumption economy with meaningless numerical data in the race for development. The fact that his book, which he calls “Prosperity Without Growth”, takes a clear stance against the main problems of this century can be considered as a “sign that the remedies have not yet been exhausted”. Itis also significant that Tim Jackson, a British ecological economist and Lecturer in Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey, is serving as director of the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, a multidisciplinary international research consortium dedicated to understanding the economic, social and political dimensions of sustainable well-being.
Paul Mason is a British journalist and writer. Through his programs, writings and books in influential media organs, especially the BBC, he presented the basic problems of capitalism in a fluent language and examples and described an alternative social life in his book “Post-Capitalism”. The Red Star novel written by the Russian scientist Alexander Bogdanov in the early 1900s, which he included in the last part of his book and about the journey to Mars and life, was very impressive. Paul Mason, who draws attention with his harsh criticisms of capitalism in his other books, also teaches at the University of Wolverhampton.
My path crossed with Kocaeli University Lecturer Tümay Mercan during my research on ” Ahilik Culture”. When we act from the lack of ethical and morally equipped rules and living of social life at the root of today’s problems, we inevitably meet the philosophy of Ahilik. I discovered that Tümay Mercan and I were looking at this issue from the same window. Her book “Now is the Time of Ahilik” is a complete bedside work. İsmet Doğru’s master’s thesis titled “The Religious, Social and Economic Functions of Ahiness in the Light of Futuvvetnames” was a rich reflection of Ahilik philosophy and culture for me.
Archaeologist Prof. Dr. İsmail Gezgin is one of the names that I cannot get enough of listening to and reading. However, “Civilized Appetite” and its subtitle “From the Living Being Who Feeds His Stomach to the Man Who Cannot Feed His Eyes” have been a source that coincides with the reasons for writing this book.
During the writing process of the book, I had very valuable private meetings. Prof. Dr. Musa Pınar, who has been living in the USA for many years and was a faculty member at Valparaiso University. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Kırcova, a faculty member of the Department of Marketing at Yıldız Technical University, Prof. Dr. Yavuz Odabaşı, who has been providing marketing training at Anadolu University for many years and whose books on the subject are still taught as basic books in universities. Marketing and brand consultant Bora Alçı is another name I have to underline. In the field of marketing management I have been closely following him for many years and who serves national and international companies in these fields. The reference name of the marketing world Temel Aksoy has been instructive and meaningful contributions to my content. Prof. Dr. Acar Baltaş, his articles, opinions and directions to me have always enlightened my path. I also have deep aprreciation to; the motivating criticisms of my friend Hakan Kara, the publisher of EKOIQ magazine Barış Doğru, who follows the world of sustainability hour by hour, Emrah Kurum, the President of the Sustainability Steps Association. Serkan Elden, who has been working with finance world for many years and who has been breathing of the international finance world that inspired my books, have taken his time and shared his ideas with me through our mutual meetings. I need to keep the contribution of Dr. Belgin Bahar, a faculty member of Galatarasay University, in a separate corner. It is safe to say that I have benefited from her work on ethical leadership before anyone else.
Serra Titiz, one of the pioneers of the sustainability journey in our country, reflected her intellectual accumulation in this book by making an in-depth reading and corrections as in my book “The Game is Over”.
In the light of our friendship that has been over 40 years, Prof. Dr. Haluk Gürgen was of course an academic and intellectual insurance. I have always felt the support of the esteemed Advisory Board members of the RepMan Center for Reputation Studies. I am grateful to each and every one of them.
The cartoons contributed by dear Aycan Gönenç, with whom I had the opportunity to work for a short time in the early 1990s and who I always believed should have a place in the “masters’ league” in line narration, both enriched the content and informed me.
Sevda Boduroğlu did not spare her friendship again. With meticulous work, she kneaded her labor in the pages of the book and made the most valuable contribution that could come from an editor.
I also have a special thanks to my publisher Cinius. As in my previous book, they brought this publication to you with a careful technical work.
Of course, the developments that caught my brother Ahmet Kadıbeşegil’s radar in his more than 50 years of journalism were very important in terms of understanding the past, present and future in a crucible.
My daughter Pırıl carefully sprinkled the clues of her sustainability journey as a professional on the pages of the book. My wife Aysen, as in my other book studies, was at the forefront with her role motivating my work discipline in the moments when I was exhausted.
With my endless thanks…
December 2022
Alacati
Humanity is once again trapped under rubble!
When this book was handed over to the publisher for the publication processes, Turkey had not yet experienced the Kahramanmaraş-based earthquake of February 6, 2023. First 7.7 nine hours later, we witnessed a disaster in which 1/3 of the country’s population was directly affected by two separate earthquakes with a magnitude of 7.6. Tens of thousands of our people once again lost their lives under the dent. More than one hundred thousand of our compatriots were recorded as injured. Thousands of buildings were razed to the ground! This earthquake once again documented the evil that man has done to himself…
However, as early as 1999, the great Istanbul earthquake in the Marmara that said “I am coming” had a rehearsal. This was followed by a renewed self-confidence with new zoning regulations, a conscious recovery of local municipalities and civil society. This is perhaps the first time that science has been pleased to prioritize its presence in life. But the honeymoon between man, nature and science soon gave way to the rent-based “stream of ignorance” of life. The assembly centers designed for earthquakes have been transformed into shopping mall-residence projects, zoning improvements have been destroyed by “zoning amnesties”, urban transformation plans have been sacrificed to “flat return” bargains, and now the population of 20 million people in Istanbul is waiting at the “earthquake stop” in clothes we call “fate”!
These experts have been drawing attention to the images of destruction revealed by the Kahramanmaraş earthquake, which scientists point out by giving almost a date and day, for 20 years. Prepared but dismissed reports on the measures had fallen victim to daily rent disputes. They called it a rehearsal for the Marmara earthquake. They define Kahramanmaraş as the extension minutes of the great Istanbul earthquake.
The natural disasters we experience and witness in this geography are the events that arise from the main idea of this book and surround us. Living and getting along with nature is our “grumpiness”. Defying the laws of nature, estimating greatness, and the illusion that what we know is superior… In fact, we find another example of a moral decay under the rubble. In other words, “our habit of going the wrong way”!
“There is no Planet B”
What happened in the first quarter of the 21st century perhaps coincides with everything that has happened in human history. In addition to Russia’s attempt to invade Ukraine, much has happened in the world, which has directly affected all spheres of communication discipline.
If we list with the main lines: September 11 attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, the ISIS terrorist organization stand on one side of the notebook.
When we look at the financial world; we must first put the 2001 Enron scandal and the 2008 Wall Street Global Financial Crisis first.
But the Coronavirus has been recorded as a period full of six unknowns in human history. It’s over, it’s passed, but in 2022, China has re-confined more than 25 million people to their homes.
In 2008, there was another important development; The phenomenon of capitalism, which for more than a century has been gnawing at humanity and the fundamental values of the planet in the sanctuary of capitalism, has been raising the “flag of surrender” as the US government partners with the bankrupt banks with the people’s money. His funeral was lifted in August 2019 when Business Roundtable, one of the world’s most powerful lobbies, of which CEOs of 200 companies are the main players of capitalism, issued a statement that they were “changing the raison d’être of companies.” In summary, this statement emphasized that the prescription that companies have defined as creating “value for their shareholders”, that is, making money, as the raison d’être of companies for more than a hundred years was wrong. Instead, they explained that they would prioritize creating value primarily for their customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders such as the local people in the places where they manufacture. Thus, we can say that a system that ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then its main enemy, Capitalism, remained under the walls that collapsed on Wall Street.
In fact, everyone had given up hope in capitalism and was dressing the cancer patient with different concepts such as “social capitalism”, “clean capitalism”, “stakeholder capitalism”. But it was not in anyone’s interest to touch the ethical and fair values at the core of the work, such as responsibility, transparency and accountability, which the logic of capitalism swept under the rug.
However, in a world where we sit on the lap of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Tik Tok and many more social media environments, no one cared about capitalism anyway. Only the uncertainty about what to “replace” has begun to change the agendas as a global stirring has become touching us in every aspect of daily life with the realization that the climate crisis has entered the house from the doorstep. Humanity was never used to a world where social media platforms took over every aspect of our lives, but it could only adapt so quickly. On top of that, Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter, one of the most common channels with the title of the richest person in the world, was another turning point. In the words of historian Yuval Nouh Harari, the “digital dictatorship” has officially entered the scene.
Are these people “Traitors” or “Heroes”?
Figures such as Edward Snowden and Michael Assange have shaped the content of another agenda all over the world with the possibilities of technology. This agenda, which exposes the “secret relations” of state institutions and the dirty tricks of those who govern states; It can be considered the second or even the third volume of George Orwell’s “1984”. However, even in the early 1990s, we could not imagine that there would be no such thing as private life in a world surrounded by facial recognition systems. While humanity is still debating whether Snowden and Assange are “traitors or heroes,” the fact remains that states are in fact making life unlivable for their own citizens in the name of supposedly “protecting themselves.” The Panama and Pandora documents, which were scattered from similar sources, also allowed us to understand how and by whom the wealth of the world was shared.
A “99%” brand was born on the streets. It can also be called a “social reaction” brand. As it was documented how greedy and cheeky capitalists robbed the people and added to their wealth with games of monopoly, the streets became chaotic. The movement that started with “Occupy Wall Street” was actually trying to give the message of making sense the reactions of those who create this wealth with their labor in the face of the dominance of the 1 percent of the world’s wealth, especially politics, and how to shape society..
No one gave a face to crypto coins at first, but when it became clear that central banks would shake their power in a short time, a different agenda emerged spontaneously. El Salvador’s official adoption of the use of cryptocurrency heralded the opening of another page. It is a fact that the currencies we know will not find a place for themselves more than a page in the history books.
Brands That Evoke Ethnicity Have Changed Their Names!
While we are looking for a recipe for being respectable and respectable in this chaotic environment, the Coronavirus has turned the compass in a completely different direction; could we meet with the input of being respectable, ethical and fair, accountable, responsible and transparent, with masks on our faces and social distancing between us? In a sense, during the Covid-19 process, companies and brands have rehearsed this. They put their values back on the table. The rising street movements of black-skinned Americans who are victims of police violence, especially in the United States, in 2020 have caused brands and companies to reconsider all the values of brands and companies, especially racial discrimination. The atmosphere of tension reflected in the revival of the famous “Jim Crow” laws of the 1900s hit not only the United States, but also Britain, the cradle of the slave trade, and other colonial societies. Statues of those “important people” who were once statues erected because they were so “reputable” and who were rich in the slave trade were now being crept through the streets and dumped in a garbage dump. Sports clubs have changed their names on the grounds that they have ethnic connotations. (Redskins) Centuries-old brands have changed their names and logos just because of this. (Aunt Emma)[1]
As for the refugees, everyone is puzzled. We are all worried that we might find ourselves in a refugee shelter at any moment.
The coronavirus entered our lives like a dessert from the “establishment” served after dinner. He turned all his life habits upside down. We are trying to build the new normals of life in a world that is uncertain when it will end with its variants.
But the real danger has been posed by the climate crisis. Nature was now paying the price for decades of callousness. With the COP 26 agenda we have faced another reality; there was no trust left in any institution or leader. How will the problems be repaired in a world where no one trusts anyone, no one can get out of it. On the other hand, from 7 to 70 we go to bed and get up with the reality of climate. Because hunger, poverty, despair, babies dying in plain sight, people, wars, famine, water problems, the wastes for which we pay a very heavy price for being a consumer society, the great injustice in the income distribution created for them, it was documented that we consumed Planet A in the early 2000s.
Will we be able to turn the fossil world upside down created by fossil fuels, fossil corporations and the fossil minds that run them? So was there a “Planet B”?
We see that the shelf life of nation states is over. Starting from empires, from there under the wing of nation states under the rule of power in which corporations “play globalism”, the rules of the game passed to companies developing technology. They are the new rulers now. Apple’s reaching a value of $ 3 trillion at the beginning of 2022 overtakes the wealth of many states in the world, while the fact that CEO Tim Cook’s personal revenues in 2021 have exceeded $ 100 million gives enough insight into who the new rulers are and the coverage of the “power” in their hands. The transition to the virtual world entered our lives early with the Metaverse. (Rehearsed with Second Life in the early 2000s) We met Non Fungable Token. The artistic exchange within the virtual world has been served as a “legal peddle-off” of money laundering. Satisfied selling satisfied in the area!
When people like me who were born in the 1950s compare their lives with today’s realities, despite all the negativity; they leave behind a happy, free and independent life. We have had a life where we can seek our rights and laws through democratic means, where we have a private life, where we travel as we wish, where we can live loves, where we make a career, and we have not known its value.
Now…
We took our heads between our hands and we think where did we go wrong? In fact, the answer is right under our noses. We have deviated from the normal that should have been in the course of life. We invented new normals for ourselves. Moreover, we believed in them and put them before us as the basic rules of doing and managing the work. Books were written about these things and lectures were given in universities. We have gnawed at Planet A and made it impossible to see the future of humanity by human hands, or rather by reason.
Will we have a chance to live in a new life on Planet B with a normal in which there is no bribery and corruption, where money cannot take precedence over moral and ethical behavior as value, and where we cannot put any other application on top of the laws of the ecological environment and nature? In other words, can we talk about a life in which man can be like “human”?
We’re looking for life on Mars, so why not push our luck on our own planet? Humanity is going through a completely different experience with the coronavirus. It is as if a feeling of “burnout” and “helplessness” is all around us in every field. While the debate on how effective the vaccines developed for Covid-19, which locks life with its variants, continues, “continuing life” cannot meet with the “right” answers in itself. But between the lines we read that a “new game” and “new rules of social life” are needed. In the words of İsmail Gezgin , “There is a need for a new identity, new definitions and positions, it is necessary to return to an ontological equality in the world of beings, to accept that the uniqueness of man is a commodity.”
Now there is a gap, and no one knows what to fill it with. Meanwhile, there are other players on the bench; like artificial intelligence, like crypto money, like touristic travels to moon, like the search for life on Mars…
“Transparency of Countries to the World!”
Prof. Dr. Özgür Uçkan, who we lost in 2015, is unfortunately one of the thinkers I discovered late. Especially the book “Wikileaks” was very inspiring. His views in New Media reflect a point I wish was at the backbone of this book:[2]
“The Internet has provided new powers to us mortal individuals, activists, rebels, artists, scientists, and the communities we have built. To be able to come together and disperse very quickly, to behave unpredictably with a decentralized organization, to maintain internal and external communication in an irrepressible way, to create support for local actions by using global communication channels, to influence world public opinion with global communication capabilities and to create unprecedented pressure on powers-that-be, above all, to make countries transparent to the world by breaking down the walls of invisibility that are the conditions of oppression…” Because the internet is[3] not only a communication space and a media, but also a field of organization with interaction opportunities.
“While a new world is being built from Göbeliktepe to Palo Alto”
What is happening in the first quarter of the 21st century shows that we are traveling in a different life than before. There are two options; we will either return to the normal we need to be or let the climate crisis destroy us through natural disasters.
At this point, it would be appropriate for me to share a short chapter from my article titled “ While a new world is being built from Göbeliktepe to Palo Alto that I wrote in my blog in 2005.[4]
“… Perhaps a lot has changed since the agricultural revolution, but the debate on how the concepts of ‘Good – Bad‘, ‘Right – Wrong’ and ‘Beauty – Ugly’, which constitute the common denominator of life and are the basic query of humanity, have found a response in which community has never changed in the journey from Göbeklitepe to Palo Alto. Or for twelve thousand years, humanity has destroyed nature, bribed, corrupted, misled justice, despite being labeled “evil, wrong and ugly.” Moreover, he displayed the depiction of the bad as “good“, the wrong as “right”, and the ugly as “beautiful” as a superior skill.
The sustainability of life is at a “critical threshold” at the beginning of the new millennium, scientists say. This data ceased to be the scripts of science fiction novels and films. It stands before us with all its cruelty as the truth itself.
… The journey from Göbeklitepe to Palo Alto was not actually based on “destroying the world”. The basic issue was man’s test of holding on to life in the face of nature. The need to “veil-dress” starting with a fig leaf led to the fact that twelve thousand years later this leaf appeared today with the label Armani, LV, Prada or D&G. Perhaps the name of the caput, which is now tied to the feet from the skin of a game animal, has become a shoe today, but it was not calculated that 8 thousand liters of water would be consumed to produce a shoe in Göbeklitepe.
Historically, prisons were built as a solution to deprive people of their freedom, but it was not foreseen that people would want to voluntarily live in urban prisons surrounded by buildings called skyscrapers, deprived of their freedom.
… The journey from Göbeklitepe to Palo Alto continues. A new world is being built in the new millennium. While the foundations of this new world are being laid, we do not know what kind of life awaits humanity. There is only one truth we know; humanity has never won over nature. When he thought he had won, he found himself in Göbeklitepe. “
As a result, the game that has been built since the agricultural revolution has gone bankrupt. Humanity needs a new game. There seems to be no other way out than a game whose rules are defined as “normal to be”, which will put aside our pessimism and which we will have to strive to be a part of. This book attempts to describe a new game that could be the gift of the sun behind the dark clouds in the sky. Will a new social structure be able to replace nation states with a 300-year history? What will we witness as individuals of this planet in the reflection of languages, religions, ethnicities and, of course, local cultures from the economy, social life and social sensitivities?
The poem “Gelmez Yola Gidiyorum”, written and performed by our folk poet Aşık Veysel Şatıroğlu three days before he died, actually summarizes everything we want to say; “We’re going on the road as soon as we come! ” Şatıroğlu were describing the voyage to die!
Happy reading…
AFTERWORD
As Aşık Veysel said, “We are going to the road as soon as it comes!” We have to find a “way out”. We have to face the fact that the lifestyle we have adopted and the economic models that fuel it are not sustainable. With the beginning of agrarian society, it triggered the “evils” in humanity’s relationship with the land.
Since these evils have turned into the “character” of man over time, tens of thousands of our people are trapped under the dent in earthquakes such as Marmara and Kahramanmaraş. We cannot call these natural phenomena, in which hundreds of thousands of people have lost their future, “fate”. Because “science” says other things, and if what science says were our character, life would flow differently! Humanity is learning by paying a very heavy price that the address of the whole fiction of life, where science and mathematics are not the playmakers, is “to go the road that cannot come”. A person who rubs his hands together for the benefits of excluding science and mathematics is passing away from this world before he can reach the flavor of life!
İsmail Gezgin Hoca, who I quoted from the book “Medeniyetized Appetite” in the introduction, wrote under this title in vain: “From the living being that feeds its belly to the person whose eyes are not satiated…” he didn’t say. We see how he has experienced the insatiability of his eyes by tormenting each other and, of course, nature for thousands of years.[5]
Look what İsmail Gezgin Hoca says: “Today, the food and material stocks of the richest (developed) country in the world are enough to feed a few world populations, let alone the hungry. Therefore, it should be clearly stated that hunger is not natural, there is no such thing as hunger in the world. If peoples, if people are starving, it’s because it’s political.”
Today, while nearly a billion people have to sleep hungry in the evenings, the fact that the number of people with obesity problems has exceeded 1.5 billion mathematically confirms what my teacher said. Ismail Hocam defines the person who prefers to do “dressing” instead of operating on this problem that has existed for hundreds of years: “
All kinds of management models such as capitalism, free market economy, new democracy enable the construction of the new feudal system. Thus, power and authority are handed over to a small number of people, deepening the gap. Now the castles in the countries and the overlords with privileges have been replaced by families who are the owners of international companies.”
Referring to the Oxfam report, İsmail Gezgin mentions that the total income of 8 rich people in the world is equal to the income of 3.6 billion people living on this planet at the last point where the injustice in income distribution has come, and says, “Therefore, there is no hunger, there is appetite terror.”
We still do not have the luxury of ignoring the problem, but it is useful to remind those who think about it the last cute of our folk poet Aşık Veysel: “We are going to the road as soon as possible!” Under this title, the 6th Ethics and Reputation Association of Turkey In my speech at the International Ethics Summit, I drew attention to the danger of the planet disappearing with man-made mistakes and emphasized that, as Aşık Veysel said, “we are going down the road that does not come”. Our famous poet passed away three days after writing this poem. Our extinction scenario may be related to our stubbornness to “go down the road that does not come”.[6]
The worst-case scenario is that with scientifically validated data, radical measures related to greenhouse gases and methane are transformed into our “way of life” in a global race against time. This is a bad scenario! Because it’s been a while since the last corner turned. You know, in a fire, there is a reflex of what we can save from the house, I’m talking about something like that. At the very least, those who want to live together around the same sensibilities will have a “chance” to hold on to life, even if the scenario is bad. That’s where the “Wiki-Community” comes in. It is a meeting point where those who face these realities and who can turn cooperation and solidarity into a shield of sustainability come together. So realistically speaking, and admittedly, the Wiki-Community proposal is also the “good” one in the bad scenario!
Referring to the Oxfam report, İsmail Gezgin mentions that the total income of 8 rich people in the world is equal to the income of 3.6 billion people living on this planet at the last point where the injustice in income distribution has come, and says, “Therefore, there is no hunger, there is appetite terror.”
We still do not have the luxury of ignoring the problem, but it is useful to remind those who think about it the last cute of our folk poet Aşık Veysel: I delivered a speech referring to his poem on this issue, at the 6th Ethics and Reputation Association of Turkey. In my speech at the International Ethics Summit, I drew attention to the danger of the planet disappearing with man-made mistakes and emphasized that, as Aşık Veysel said, “we are going down the road that does not come”. Our famous poet passed away three days after writing this poem. Our extinction scenario may be related to our stubbornness to “go down the road that does not come”.[7]
The worst-case scenario is that with scientifically validated data, radical measures related to greenhouse gases and methane are transformed into our “way of life” in a global race against time. This is a bad scenario! Because it’s been a while since the last corner turned. You know, in a fire, there is a reflex of what we can save from the house, I’m talking about something like that. At the very least, those who want to live together around the same sensibilities will have a “chance” to hold on to life, even if the scenario is bad. That’s where the “Wiki-Community” comes in. It is a meeting point where those who face these realities and who can turn cooperation and solidarity into a shield of sustainability come together. So realistically speaking, and admittedly, the Wiki-Community proposal is also the “good” one in the bad scenario!
Cartoons by Aycan Gönenç
[1] CROW Jim; Jim Crow laws were racially segregationist local laws enacted in the southern states of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. The laws were enacted against the political and economic gains made by Black people during the restructuring period in the United States.
[2] UÇKAN Özgür; NEW MEDIA; 13/1/2013; https://yenimedya.wordpress.com/tag/wikileaks/
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