Wishes for 2007
If I was less of a cynic I’d wish for the new Democratic majority in Congress and the Bush Administration, the Sunnis, Shiites and Israelis, the Somalis, Ethiopians, Sudanese, Rwandans, Zimbabweans and Congolese, the Basques, the Koreans, the Pakistanis, Indians, the Tamils and the Sri Lankans to find a true new path to peace, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, Palestine and Israel, and everywhere people are killing each other out of misunderstanding, misplaced anger or envy, or from a sad drive for power in what is, after all, a fleeting moment that we have in this existence.
I’d wish that the greedy corporate leaders would appreciate the immense good fortune they already have and stop trying to grasp every last dollar, Euro or yuan they might possibly reach, and instead turn that drive to lifting up the far less fortunate just a little bit. Partners at Goldman, Sachs and your pals on Wall Street and the hedge funds, I’m particularly pointing at you and your absurd bonuses.
I’d also wish that the leadership of the global energy industry would realize that they’re people first, with family and friends who need a world to live in that hasn’t been ruined by rapacious consumption of what are, after all, limited resources before its too late and the rising seas are lapping up at their office lobbies.
But I am too much of a cynic, so I won’t.
