As the world approaches catastrophic conflict, wealth and power remain invested in preserving the arrangements driving instability. Asking for peace has become almost absurd, while preparing for destruction is considered perfectly sensible.
Tag: Self-Destruction
We have spent billions of years becoming what we are, yet our political and economic systems increasingly reward the destruction of the complex relationships that sustain us. What we stand to lose is beyond calculation, and the tragedy is how unnecessary so much of it is.
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How it all ends
Billions of years of planetary evolution, and here we are, contemplating our own self-destruction, along with much of the living world, in pursuit of wealth, power and other elaborate fictions we have mistaken for necessities.
