We are not going to make it as a species, the way we live is driving us straight towards extinction, and we possess not the will or the patience to avoid this fate. This path to destruction is fueled by humanities bottomless greed, enough is never enough for anyone. We want it all and we want it right now, and there are people waiting to give it to us so long as we don't ask how they acquired it. They in turn are fueled by their own greed. There is infinite greed coming from a growing number of people, and only so much to go around. This is not a sustainable way of life, not socially, not economically, and not ecologically.
We have seen the social results of this greed already. Not long ago empires stripped other peoples of their wealth and well being to satiate the greed of their own populace. Many of the wars and conflicts around the world are the inevitable outcome of this greed driven imperialism. This imperialism takes new forms today, large business entities exploit poorer nations today for labour or resources, and by doing so cause immeasurable harm.
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| green algal bloom in the Irishtown Road Reservoir, NB |
Ecologically we see what our greed and recklessness has wrought. Once clean reserves of fresh water turned into putrid algae blooms. We corrupt even the air we breath.
Economically we have lived beyond our means for too long. We stand right now on the precipice of a great shift in our world, even those living in the most powerful nations in the world are slated to feel the sting of our latest failure. Even with this reality slowly setting in, greed still prevails in every where it can be found. Whether in the imaginations of the lowest individuals, or in the actions of the groups that make up the upper echelons of society.
This state of affairs will result in disaster one way or another. Whether it ends with us wiping each other out for a sliver of land or a glass of water, or whether it ends with the planet that we depend on stamping us out of existence, it does not matter. How things are now will end, they will end badly, and we will end with it.
