We can't eat money

To watch the slow-motion demise of our planet is truly stunning, beyond sad and dumbfounding in the lunacy of it all. The addiction to money, which is merely created out of thin air, and the insatiable greed to get more and more of it with no amount ever being enough is the real reason for the devastation of the Earth.

Ways of existing with the Earth in a harmonizing, logical fashion have always existed, but the power-hungry leaders, corporations and institutions that run most countries only care about one thing: more money! This greed comes at the expense of citizens and the planet.

Because of this, we’ve reached a point where it is already probably too late. So, we can all go along with our lives like nothing is happening, but in reality the glaciers are melting at unprecedented levels, the sea is warming and rising, and there are massive population crashes in birds, insects, amphibians and fish. Every year is becoming hotter than the last year, climate catastrophes like floods, hurricanes and wildfires are becoming more frequent and more devastating. Farm fields are becoming un-farmable, crops are becoming harder to grow and less productive, aquifers and reservoirs are drying up, trees are dying at shocking rates, and nothing gets done. Meanwhile, children are dying of starvation and disease, many wonderful animals are being threatened with extinction, populations of people are being forced to move because their land is no longer habitable.

Why? Because of the love of money which “Trumps” any common sense or caring for others. Nevertheless, when the planet becomes uninhabitable for human life, the rich will be going down with everyone else, which makes it sheer madness! We live in very bizarre, unintelligent times, and it’s just not looking good for reason to prevail. To be able to live on such a beautiful and diverse planet is a privilege. To make this planet uninhabitable for the life forms that live on it is beyond stupidity!

As the Cree saying by my front door says, “Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”

– Jim Altree, Durango