Avoiding meltdown

At present, in the natural world, if animals were capable of judging us morally, we’d be very much ‘on the nose’. We don’t have a good reputation, so we need to earn our way back to re-acceptance. Humans have become so used to regarding our own species as supreme that it’s almost impossible for us to imagine things switching around. Or rather imagining how the animals are thinking of us. They seeing us as dumb and as barbarians or worse. Imagining that it is we who are left out in the cold.
If, godforbid, there were a major global collapse with destabilisation of social structures and food shortages, how would things turn out I wonder? As hunger hit we’d quickly understand to what extent we’ve lost touch with Nature. In such a crisis we might find animals much better able to survive than us. We humans, especially those in the affluent West, have never learnt to grow food or deal with adversity. Most of us have only ever lived on easy street. We’ve been softened by our dependency on animals for so long that we can’t imagine any sort of a satisfactory life without them (their flesh and by-products).
To start to repair before the eleventh hour and help avert a collapse, we need to act. At home in our food. On the world stage with a loud and interesting voice. There are a million different ways to start the repair if we attend to animal food first. Nothing substantial can be achieved until this key stone is in place. And once this is positioned everything else can be built upon it.
Repair. We can’t pretend not to have noticed the need for it. It’s a simulktaneous repair on ourselves (our habits) and the infrastructure of our world. If there were a world scale collapse where would we be without a plan B to fall back on? Woven into the matrix of that plan is our sanity and creativity, both of which we need to access. to pull us out of any collapse.
Precisely what we wouldn’t need is seven billion deranged humans, gripped with fear, adding to the collapse - at such a critical point, we might well see the need for repair but be suffering so much fear that we can’t do anything much about it.
It’s likely that, once we break free of addictive habits and develop some self-discipline, repair is just a matter of pulling our hand out of the fire. Or to use a water based analogy: the great ship of society is sailing towards rocks – it hits and begins leaking. It needs running repairs to avoid sinking. Steering away from the rocks is difficult due to the inertia of the ship – it’s taking on too much water. The atmosphere on board is panic. Any essential running repairs are made harder because of the panic. Everyone seems transfixed by the rocks ahead.
Repairs are slow and the ship is getting heavier and disaster seems inevitable. Rescue is unlikely. Should we jump? (give up?). With animal cruelty so deeply ingrained in human nature and with our deteriorating health, humans are feeling overwhelmed by the scale of it all. The need for repair is so overwhelming and so you could say that the ship of our society is foundering.
Vegans are suggesting a way to avert catastrophe, by offering an idea for steering away from the rocks and for repairing the gash in the side of our ship. To repair the cumulative damage we’ve done to ourselves and our world we need a simple-to-understand safety principle, that suggests how we go about self-repairing and how we go about mending environmental damage too. The very beginning of this repair involves boycotting animal farm produce, because it is this, more than anything else, that has caused and is perpetuating a near catastrophe, on so many levels.