I was thinking this morning, and it occurred to me that the biggest threat humanity faces, as a species, is not climate change or dwindling resources, but conservatism. The mentality which has people place themselves before the community; which says money is life’s ultimate goal; which allows those who can to lord it over those who cannot, and says haves are somehow better than have nots. The ideology which demands mining more fossil fuels and objects to wind turbines because they blot the landscape; which objects to gay marriage because, despite giving all sorts of legal, moral or religious reasons, deep down they just hates gay people; which demands tax should be kept low for rich people even when the poorest in society are starving because their benefits have been cut. It is that ideology, that set of childish selfish impulses mistaken by idiots for politics, which blights humanity. Neoliberal conservatism itself is a problem, and the sooner we realise that, outgrow greed selfishness and the pursuit of money and start working together for the good of all, irrespective of ability gender or skin tone, the better.