Human Life Is “Unraveling,” But No One Seems To Care

This from British scientist and conservationist Charlie Gardner. It really is astonishing how little humankind is doing to prevent environmental collapse and other forms of societal decay.

An important factor at play here is that the vast majority of the world’s people live under great financial duress.  Whether that means the poor or the working-class, stressed-out people don’t have resources to become activists, and organize against a societal structure that is in the process of driving us into extinction, or at best, a hellish existence.

As 20th Century American author Upton Sinclair wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

The response to all this from the top 1% is truly appalling: We have no interest whatsoever in making changes to a system that is making us even richer by the day, regardless of the irreparable damage that our current life modalities are having on this planet.