These are all issues with human decision makers about how to organize a society. As long as money is central and Nature and human life are peripheral, we cannot solve our problems.

We can and do produce food and medicine and shelter but cannot get it to people who need it because we prioritize money (a fiction that exists only in human minds) and not life. But life is real and money is not.

The economics of slashing fossil fuel emissions is irrelevant because what matters is people and Nature and protecting both.

This is, I understand, hard to grasp. We need to think beyond the systems into which we were born. It’s like asking a fish to notice water.

We have 2 key problems: a lack of will and a lack of sufficient imagination. The latter is particularly challenging. In my writing and podcasts, I try to make an alternative worldview—better, realistic, sustainable—understandable.