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Using the open secret of life to save the world.
We know how to blunt the deadly effects of climate change. We need to slash fossil fuel use. Yes, there is more we should do…or perhaps more accurately, less.
We should substantially reduce the amount of useless crap we produce — which would cut energy use, pollution, and toxicity in our biosphere.
We know what to do — but are allowing “leaders” to deploy excuses instead of solutions.
The reasons for our failure is that we live under a system and culture that, by its nature, speeds our species to doom. I’m talking about corporatism. The for-profit corporation is a dominating psychopathic entity that destroys everything, including human lives, and the habitability of the Earth, in pursuit of ever-greater profits.
An elective government awash in corporate money isn’t going to protect the Earth any more than a totalitarian regime running a petroleum-laden state. Both must be defied and overruled by sensible people.
Peanuts Wisdom
Our corporate-diseased culture promotes itself, not the well-being of people, of animals, or of our planet. A better understanding of human beings and their proper role comes from Charles Schultz in an old comic strip I’m quoting (probably paraphrasing) from memory.
