"What we needed at the Cop26 climate conference was a decision to burn no more fossil fuels after 2030. Instead, powerful governments sought a compromise between our prospects of survival and the interests of the fossil fuel industry. But there was no room for compromise. Without massive and immediate change, we face the possibility of cascading environmental collapse, as Earth systems pass critical thresholds and flip into new and hostile states." George Monbiot, Domino Theory
It's as though we learned that creating something new, solving a problem, is so hard and takes so long, we gave up and instead focused on destroying everything we can. Like those video games where the player moves the track point to the moving images of whatever is in its path which blow up into cloud dust until you exit the game.
When all things on this planet have been blown up, when we are gone how will we know who won?
But this is not who we are. This is not us. This is a different kind of game organized by those who hate, who are so broken they conspire to get us all to believe we are mindless ping pong balls spending our waking hours trying to win ... anything and everything.
This view makes the world a shallow violent place as though we were all created in a petri dish, five minutes ago.
We began our personal lives in a uterus and stayed there for about nine months until forced out into the cold air, crying, outraged, until a nipple was found, and by some magic we knew we had to suck it to survive.
Capitalism has revolved around the creation of "things" to play while it destroys the earth we depend on to breathe, eat and live.
Minds are battered by trivial inventions to create need. Education teaches us to measure the trivial so we can survive by playing the game of "winning". The problem is that nature offers so much beauty and mystery we can be absorbed in life and neglect the games that drive the economy where only one side wins and everything else loses.
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