Maybe money is not the root of every problem. However, when looking for root causes after peeling back all the layers of the onion, there you will often find money as the source. We humans have been accumulating stuff for thousands of years and somewhere along the way it was decided, "he who has the most stuff wins!" Stuff includes power, money and things. And greed was born. Here we are in 2022 facing the fallout from all that greed.
- A crumbling healthcare system in the USA? A bloated and greedy health insurance system along with evil pharmaceutical giants who will gladly let people die if there's an ounce of profit in it. I think Evil is an appropriate word here.
- A political system of the people, by the people, for the people morphed into a system of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. Rule of law, human rights and opportunity for all be damned. Hint, hint- a billionaire on a non-life supporting world is not all it's cracked up to be.
- A war in Ukraine started by a delusional Russian leader with complete disregard for human suffering. Our Evil arms industry is happy to keep the fighting going for as long as possible to keep the dollars flowing in. Peace is the last thing these evil bastards want! True of wars everywhere.
- Literally a dying planet (that we ALL live on) cannot begin to slow down our collective greed. You see, it's not just fossil fuel companies with black hearts. It is us. We cannot even imagine a world without cars, comfortable homes, jet travel, limitless spectacle, food brought in from across the globe and all the other trappings of "modern" life. I'm as guilty as anyone. We would have to have a complete paradigm shift in how we live to have a reasonable hope of turning the tide. That's the easy way. Nature will fix it. That's the hard way. Remember friends, the Earth does not need us. We need it.
So... what to do? Leave the game to the extent you can. Drive less. Only take what you need. Love each other and grow a garden. Be the example...
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