This story (attached) is about how we find happiness by helping other people find theirs. As it is, we have been lied to for so long that we have learned to put ideology (such as the free market and American Exceptionalism) above the happiness or the legitimate needs of people.
It’s time we start paying attention to gross domestic happiness not gross domestic product. And it’s time we stop listening to self-appointed climate sages who promise positive change while bolstering business as usual, theft as usual and murder as usual
The Climate Cartel and the Green Consumption Industrial Complex want us to believe we can consume and shop our way out of this climate crisis. They don’t want us to think about the related and much more obvious crises surrounding biodiversity and desertification. Biodiversity and desertification are problems that are relatively easy to solve but not profitable to solve, so we don’t hear much about it.
Nor are freedom and democracy profitable to the big players.
I believe we will find our way out of these crises only when we respect people enough to give them true democracy, true freedom and true self determination. We need to trust people enough to give them the right to say NO to polluting industries. We need to respect people enough to not want anyone in the world to be at the wrong end of our phallic weapons.
We need to respect people enough to where no one in the world has to work as slaves in mines or sweatshops or plantations to make our clean, green and renewable techno-fixes, from solar panels to hydrogen power to geoengineering to Tesla batteries to climate smart GMO seeds, which are really climate stupid if you look into it.
Clean and renewable energy is anything but clean or renewable when you see how the sausage is made. We don’t need to be sold lies about how technology is going to save us. We need to stop enslaving others and ourselves. We are slaves to a military machine that charges us $4000 per year per capita to make the world more deadly. We are slaves to a transportation system that charges us $8000 per year per car. We are slaves to a health care system that costs $10,000 per year per capita and
the most expensive health care and charges us monopoly prices for drugs developed at taxpayer expense.
All these expenses are busting our carbon budgets and our family budgets, making us work extra days, weeks and months per year just to stay afloat.
And neither Biden’s Climate Plan nor any of the local clean and renewable energy plans get anywhere near the root of the problem, which is the existence of entire industries that we could discard without missing them, or at least reduce by 90% or restructure to serve people not profit.
But we are not presented with that choice, are we? Instead we have self adoring Tesla drivers (and their kin) who legitimize and support all the worst organizations in the world.
Nobody is talking about how to reduce or eliminate defense even though we know the military industrial complex exists for profit, not for safety. Nobody is talking about how to stop making 65 million new cars worldwide. Nobody is talking about how to switch to organic and regenerative agriculture even though it is more nutritious, more ecological and more profitable if you remove the fossil fuel subsidies. Nobody is talking about how to eliminate the carbon and ecological disaster that is biofuels.
Self appointed experts wax eloquent about the virtue or necessity of solar panels or electric cars or Impossible Burgers or the Democratic Party or ”pragmatism” (which is code for the bipartisan screwing of the working class, the weak and the unlucky).
This is the same breed of dupes and charlatans that brought us our current system and don’t see a problem with it because it’s working for them.
It’s time we give ourselves and others respect, freedom and true democracy, stop stealing the air, water, soil our time and the biodiversity which is our inheritance. And stop letting our lives be governed by people who put their own egos and social standing above the legitimate needs of human beings.
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