One Tribe

Right or Wrong This is a non-exhaustive list of things we humans do, or have done, wrong. Just an observation. What do you think? Anything to add? Cupidity and apathy guiding too many decisions. The way we grow our food. Poor soil stewardship. Poor food choices and preparation. Too much meat. Very poor food distribution and too much food waste. Not ensuring quality, nutritious food available for all. Poor and improper footwear. Women generally don't need and should probably not wear bras. Most of us don't poo properly. Not willing to share. Building countries around automobiles instead of mass forms of transportation. Much too willing to introduce pollution and toxins into our environment and our bodies. Established and promoted disease-care the world over rather than healthcare. Fostered a world of drug dependency and addiction (largely due to the legal drug trade and inequality). In the name of progress, allowed ourselves to become completely dependent on fossil fuels. No at...

The Economy and Covid Every time I hear talk of a recovery in the media I shake my head and sigh. V-shaped, U-shaped, check mark shape? Recovery for who? From what? Recovery from the decades long currency devaluations? Recovery from the massive buildup of debt everywhere? Recovery from longstanding and ever increasing inequality? Recovery from resource depletion wherever one looks? Oh yeah, they mean back to December 2019. Like that matters. Many will call me a pessimist or a doomer or apply some other ad hominem label but the reality is there will be no recovery. If we are lucky...maybe...but it will take a long time and things will look very different. There have been many good times and bad times, ups and downs, dark ages and roaring decades. During rough patches the uplifting refrain was, "this too, shall pass". It was true. Can it be true this time? How can it be? In times past, the Earth's resources were plentiful. Until recently, there were far fewer humans. Arable...