Extinction of a species unique to a biome or perhaps a virome. This occurs every day, but is accelerated by the massive plundering and destroying of our environment, our planet, to the point today of now threatening our very existence. 'Rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.' That is what Vandana Shiva writes in her new book 'Oneness and the 1%.' From which I am sharing a couple of paragraphs in today's recorded podcast.
Sound like something you know? Like Trump's 'philosophy'** of taking without giving, or considering anything besides his anthropocentric self and his greedy fellow plunderers as the center of the universe?
Whatever happened to peace and love? or peaceful co-existence? and tolerance? instead of racism and hate? Why are we allowing ourselves to be drawn down to the lowest common denominator by this denigrating insecure man deathly afraid of his karma coming to roost if he loses the election? Cheating like a demon, wrecking the very foundations of our democratic system, yearning to be Dictator and President-for-Life of our USA in his mad scramble to protect himself from the rule of law, AND the constitution - which he has grossly failed to protect.
** I know, I'm giving him way way way too much credit. He functions by instinct. Deep consideration is foreign to him and his decision making. Which he owes to us, an entire country of citizens for whom he is theoretically responsible. For life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not Putin, Erdogan, Xi and his love-letter writer Kim Jong-un.
