think values don’t count for much…
let us look at the issues and problems facing the world…
we have, in no particular order, global warming, income inequality,
injustice, intolerance, millions without proper food or water,
millions of Americans who exist week to week and would go homeless
if they went without a paycheck during three weeks, pollution,
this is just a top of my head listing of our current issues and problems…
I suppose had I actually tried I might be able to double this list…
anyway, we have enough to start…
so let us begin with global warming…the cause of global warming
is the actions of human beings… that much cannot be doubted unless
the entire scientific community is wrong and I doubt that…
so what drives this action of human beings that creates global warming?
the cause is simple enough, greenhouse gases… but what does greenhouse
gases have to do with values? it is the values that drive the need for the greenhouse
gases…factories driven by the value of greed, a lower instinct indeed…
cars build to increase profits of car makers sold by appealing to humans beings
ego, vanity, greed, envy…it is values that drive the actions that create greenhouse
gases…
it is the same for pollution… companies say its too expensive to take the pollutants
out of the mixture pored into the atmosphere and it will cost profits to insure
clean air or clean water… monetary value outweighs the damage pollution
causes the earth… the values of greed outweigh our need to have clean air
and clean water… to have clean air and clean water might cost us some of
our GDP…
income inequality is not a problem… so says the wealthy man…and the shills
he buys to promote his wealth…if 500 people have as much wealth
as half the world’s population, that is a problem…you could print enough money
to give the half the world money enough, but all that does is create inflation and
inflation doesn’t help anyone…no, if so much money is tied up in the hands
of just a small percentage of people, then millions, no billions don’t have enough
resources to adequately support themselves… it is the greed and gluttony
of the wealthy to gain ever more wealth even though the billions they have
will last dozens of lifetimes…why should one man have billions and another
man live in poverty? justice demands that we all equally should share in
the bounty of the earth… for the earth isn’t about who owns it… for
who can claim to own the land on earth… and yet, people do claim so…
on what grounds can we claim to own part of earth…it is nothing more
then greed that drives the biggest factor in our list of issues and problems…
and that is the need to own… to have private property…why does one
man have 7 houses and another man lives on the street? and the defenders
of wealth and greed bring out the old and tired defense of wealth and greed…
but they fail to bring out the real reasons for wealth… luck and the fact
is that wealth is built upon the backs of the workers in wage theft… paying
workers less then they can sell the workers efforts… the wealth of bill gates
is built upon selling his products for more then he pays his workers…
it is the workers that build the wealth and it is the workers who then suffer,
suffer under capitalism… workers who toil under stress and the burden of
terrible working conditions… factories and factories lite…
it is the values of greed that has created the conditions and problems
and issues that we face today in the modern world…greed and lust
and envy and hate and anger… it is this drive to increase corporate
and individuals wealth that has damaged our planet and it inhabitants,
both human and animal… it is values that has created
poverty and pollution and income inequality and global warming
and injustice and intolerance and all those other issues and problems
facing us today and tomorrow…the negative values…
you want to save the earth… replace those negative values with
positive values… values of love, peace, justice, equality, tolerance…
and will the problems of the world vanish overnight? no, no they won’t…
but it is a start… and that is all we are aiming for right now… a start
to make life better… you want to end the problems of the earth created
by humans… start with your values and what they mean…
then the next step is a reevaluation of those values… is the answer
to our problems really Americanism or white power or hating the Jew?
those “solutions” help create the problems we have today, they aren’t solutions…
they are more of the same in the listings of what caused the issues/problems of today…
list your values and then try to understand… are those values the reason we
have such issues and problems today? for most people, the answer is yes…
the values they hold is part of the reasons for pollution and income inequality
and intolerance and injustice and global warming… for those values drive
the actions that make it possible for these issues and problems to exist…
what values do you hold?
are you sure?
Kropotkin