Just a few comments on money. Money is not part of our true wealth, particularly when it is tied to monetary systems that devalues it over time, that burdens all peoples with working for more and more of their precious time and lives for less and less monetary value. We are working longer and longer hours, days, and years for value that is disappearing just as fast or even faster. And those who benefit the most will eventually also lose. It is like trusting in a house of cards or paper. Eventually, the big bad wolf will easily huff and puff and blow it down. What sense is there in working for what is failing us all, both in the short and long term? Meanwhile, our true wealth is left languishing, daily dying from profiteers, neglect, abuse, manipulation, degradation, suffering, destruction, and death.
Beyond money is an entire world of intrinsic wealth that is the greatest part and parcel of our true and common wealth. Our shared and everlasting wealth is neighborly self-sufficient and self-sustainable local community, also the health, vitality, and diversity of our human civilization, and the health, vitality, and diversity of our shared natural world. We are losing the heart and soul of our own humanity while appearing to profit from the destruction of our true and common wealth. Human populations, animals, fish, birds, insects, plants, rivers, lakes, oceans, and the air itself are all fodder now for manipulation by monetary systems that are devaluing both our paper wealth and our true wealth. Yet, our true wealth in the natural world is actually priceless. It is irreplaceable. We might manage to come to our senses and fix our monetary currencies, but our true natural wealth (human health, animals, trees, birds, fish, insects, plants, forests, rivers, aquifers, oceans, the air all life breathes) when it is gone, is gone forever. A resource-based economy calls us to focus on what truly defines our actual wealth, and works to protect and save those priceless assets for now and for future generations. A redefinition of saving the true assets of our planetary wealth should be in the works now, more like yesterday. We need to run. We have priceless, irreplaceable wealth and assets that we are quickly, almost overnight, losing. And when they are gone ... Well, the big bad wolf will be revealed to be us. We blew down life and love. We built a world that couldn't last, that wouldn't survive, and that surely couldn't thrive. We took our eyes off the prize. And, it wasn't money.
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Just a few comments on money. Money is not part of our true wealth, particularly when it is tied to monetary systems that devalues it over time, that burdens all peoples with working for more and more of their precious time and lives for less and less monetary value. We are working longer and longer hours, days, and years for value that is disappearing just as fast or even faster. And those who benefit the most will eventually also lose. It is like trusting in a house of cards or paper. Eventually, the big bad wolf will easily huff and puff and blow it down. What sense is there in working for what is failing us all, both in the short and long term? Meanwhile, our true wealth is left languishing, daily dying from profiteers, neglect, abuse, manipulation, degradation, suffering, destruction, and death.
Beyond money is an entire world of intrinsic wealth that is the greatest part and parcel of our true and common wealth. Our shared and everlasting wealth is neighborly self-sufficient and self-sustainable local community, also the health, vitality, and diversity of our human civilization, and the health, vitality, and diversity of our shared natural world. We are losing the heart and soul of our own humanity while appearing to profit from the destruction of our true and common wealth. Human populations, animals, fish, birds, insects, plants, rivers, lakes, oceans, and the air itself are all fodder now for manipulation by monetary systems that are devaluing both our paper wealth and our true wealth. Yet, our true wealth in the natural world is actually priceless. It is irreplaceable. We might manage to come to our senses and fix our monetary currencies, but our true natural wealth (human health, animals, trees, birds, fish, insects, plants, forests, rivers, aquifers, oceans, the air all life breathes) when it is gone, is gone forever. A resource-based economy calls us to focus on what truly defines our actual wealth, and works to protect and save those priceless assets for now and for future generations. A redefinition of saving the true assets of our planetary wealth should be in the works now, more like yesterday. We need to run.
We have priceless, irreplaceable wealth and assets that we are quickly, almost overnight, losing.
And when they are gone ...
Well, the big bad wolf will be revealed to be us.
We blew down life and love.
We built a world that couldn't last, that wouldn't survive, and that surely couldn't thrive.
We took our eyes off the prize.
And, it wasn't money.