Here’s Where We Stand

What Pete Seeger says here is, of course, 100% true.  But just look around and see for yourself how far we are from any concept even remotely approaching his idea.

We live with the fundamental rule that we, if we’re rich enough, can do essentially anything we like, regardless of its consequences to the planet.

To take one of hundreds of examples, we’re belching out the toxins from the consumption of fossil fuels into our atmosphere a full 45 years after it was revealed to Big Oil that this practice was in the process of rendering the Earth uninhabitable.

Activists care.  Proponents of deregulated capitalism don’t.   That’s where we stand.