Our upside down world

 "The one who pollutes the environment must not become richer than the one who protects the environment. At the moment it is the other way round. There are so many opportunities to improve things. I still hold that thought. But sod the housing co-ops, the reclaim the night marches, the pay gap campaigns, the long distractions from what really matters, the last and only issue that we must not pretend we cannot see or understand. I haven't even dared to think of visions yet.

The belief that success in the fight against global warming depends on how much each and every one of us does keeps us from taking the really important and courageous actions required today. Instead, it promotes a consumerism that functions like an indulgence handout in order to relieve our conscience and continue to close our eyes to the reality of the crisis. Capitalism pretends to care about the environment and we even fall for this greenwashing.

Kohei Saito"

Thanks to fellow blogger Sabine at this post.

I commented as follows on her blog:

...sharing your last two paragraphs. They hit home to many of my friends who are very aware, and sometimes making efforts individually and in families, but unable to push to more community or national legal efforts. We are mired in Republican effluence which makes mere survival for those most effected by the climate crisis our highest goal on a political front.

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And a friend who doesn't blog, but posts on Facebook, and sends substack publications, Robertson Work says:

"From a Capitalist Economy to a Compassionate Economy

The purpose of an economy is to care for all people, all species, and all ecosystems, not to make a few people rich. The current economy harms most people, drives animal and plant species to extinction, pollutes air, water, and soil, creates a climate emergency, promotes warfare, and makes a few people rich.

All people of goodwill must help make a radical shift from a capitalist economy to a compassionate economy if life on Earth is to continue and flourish.

Billionaires around the world are worth $12.2 trillion and millionaires are worth $200 trillion. There must be a wealth tax now to promote social justice and ecological regeneration.

Big Money must not be allowed to control government, essential services, and the media. Labor unions must grow. Consolidations should not be allowed. Wage levels should support a family. UBI is needed now.

It is possible and necessary to do all of this. There are 8 billion amazing humans on Earth, and only 60 million of us are millionaires or billionaires.

Have you read my book A Compassionate Civilization?

GOTV (get out the vote), speak out, write, care for those in need, demonstrate change at the local level, and do all you can."

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Today's quote:

Live your life as an experiment. 

-Pema Chodron, Buddhist nun and author (b. 1936)