I saw 'Serenity' last night and something occured to me on the way home. I'll try not to spoil it for you but be warned I might mention things which are related to the film.

The heroes discover something which is, well it's pretty bad and if revealed will throw the Alliance (read, evil empire) into turmoil with the people rising up etc.

I thought, if I ever discovered something like that with my mates, hell yeah I'd tell the whole world so we can all live free. The truth will set you free.

But of course, such things are already out there, things which are perhaps worse than the thing in the film are out there. Governments and Corporations roll over people every day, a child dies in Africa every THREE SECONDS from PREVENTABLE diseases (diseases to which we already have a cure). Do I see uprising? Do I see mass movement? In places yeah, but is it enough?

The MAKE POVERTY HISTORY movement has momentum yes, but there are other things which concern me. Mainly the fact that every year we see more extreme weather conditions and we muddle through not connecting it to Climate Change from greenhouse gases.

But it's never as simple as in the movies is it? It's never a case of one easy solution. That is what is hard to break through. There are many problems in this beautiful world. Each one of them requires a solution and that solution often has to run through a lot of the things you do. Recycling, donations to registered charities, lobbying the Government, etc.

THERE IS HOPE:
I found out the other day that the University of London Union replaced ALL coffee and tea in the entire building with Fair Trade stuff. Oh, and didn't tell anybody. So when the fat cats say that it will take too much effort to convert we can say. 'We already have'. It's not too much of a push to make the University of London a Fair Trade university. Imagine that.

One last thing I've got to say, 'Fight Club' defined a generation by saying:

"We are the middle children of History, no purpose or place, no great war, no great depression. Our Great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives."

Now, I think that sums up Generation X pretty damn well. But it's time to come out of our adolecence and realise that our 'Great war' is to save the Planet. The number of people who must think, 'I want to change the world', well you can. Better yet, you can save it from itself.

SAVE THE WORLD.