Every hope,
Every fear,
Every laugh,
Every tear...
On this planet
Every joke,
Every speech,
Every forest,
Every beach...
On this planet.
Every life,
Every death,
Every beat,
Every breath...
On this planet.
Every fight,
Every war,
Every deadly
Carnivore...
On this planet.
All the tribes,
Pointless pride.
Every theft,
Homocide...
On this planet
But we can win,
We can change,
Peace is within
Our range...
On this planet.
We have to stop
The pointless fights.
People of the
World unite...
On this planet.
For endless riches,
Endless feasts;
All we need
Is endless peace...
On this planet.
Earth, the world, everything you know and love...
This planet is your home and you can make a difference.
*Speechless*
It'd be nice if everyone could get along. But let's face it. People get bored. And when they get bored they pick fights.
You know what though, we could play on human psychology instead of trying to change it. Why don't we declare 'war' on poverty, or 'war' on climate change, instead of war on different countries?
The best solution would be a global government, but somehow I doubt anyone will do that.
However it's not the only solution.
If we haven't managed to cut our pollution dramatically by 2030, the climate will be beyond our control, so we need to act quickly, the technological singularity, which may save us, won't happen until at least 2050, so that isn't what we're looking for.
Some kind of economic reason is obviously going to be the only thing, and I can see it staring us in the face. At the moment Earth is running out of resources, and gaining people, but everything outside of Earth is the same as it was at the dawn of civilization. There is much more oil on moons and asteroids than there is in the middle east. So if the money being spent on fighting over these small amounts of oil was spent on getting control of space, then the government would make far more money.
And at the moment Saturn is 10 years away, but that time will probably be cut to 2 years at the most if enough time and money is invested in science.