The only reason we’ve been force-fed the story [that] ‘climate change + renwables = we’re saved’ is because billionaires, bankers, and corporations profit from it. And the reason we’re not talking about overpopulation, consumption, and the suicide of economic growth is [because] that would be bad for business, especially the cancerous form of capitalism that rules the world, now hiding under a cover of green.
— Planet of the Humans
It’s funny too because before watching this I just watched a Deutsche Welle documentary on inequality, which featured intelligent people at the top of the ladder sitting around in a room, using their brains to… to not create anything. To not innovate anything. To not bring benefit to other beings in the world. But to make money. Where to place the chips so they could get more chips. And this is what the people at the “top” – who are so rich it is hard to even grasp – do with their minds.
If there is one thing that has become perfectly clear over the course of my lifetime, it’s that those responsible for making the decisions that affect and manage society are fucking up massively.
Things do not go from bad or not good to much worse just because. It’s not like fucking weather. Yet this is what many public officials claim. To them there is no causality.
Changes that occur in society are the direct result of actions taken and actions not being taken.
Buddha stated this in the teaching of the Four Noble Truths. There are reasons for suffering and there is a path to make things better. To deny this is evil. If you don’t believe this you fundamentally fail.
But people make money when tens of millions of people flood into the country. Real estate values skyrocket. Development skyrockets. More strip malls are built everywhere. Labor is cheaper. Consumption goes up so Big Line goes up. More people means a need for even more shit, so the need to import even more.
We could have settled for a balance. We could have not made the evil trade-offs that have been made. Not export the manufacture of everything to overseas. Focus on making things ourselves, with care and as cleanly as possible. Accept that the economy can decrease. Accept and even be happy that population declines, thereby reducing consumption. Live within our means and focus extensively on being cleaner and meaner (doing more with less).
The path the United States and much of the world is on now is one of destruction and waste on a scale so vast it is almost unimaginable.
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