Greed and bullying to get what we want. I had an experience of that as I was inquiring about u-pick strawberries today. An older white man and 2 young girls, pulled in after me, yet interrupted my conversation to ask about a specific type of strawberry. She said that field wasn't open. Yet when I paid for my pickings, I saw he was picking in the restricted field. If we don't stand up to bullying to avoid conflict we will continue to be bullied.
Like you, I don't see how we'll get beyond the greed. We elect the rich and the lobbyists shout too loud for the rest to be heard over the pounding on the oil drums. I'm actually not worried about the earth. I believe it will rebound in the same way it did after it was destroyed by the cataclysmic impact of the meteor (asteroid?) that ended the age of the dinosaurs. It will look different, I know, but I believe it will survive. It's humanity I worry about. We're making the earth inhospitable for our species. I hope we soon choose wisdom instead of promises 🙏
Well, I am hopeful. Yet i mainly want the earth to endure.
I think it will survive even us!
Holy, I hate this. The story is fine, but I hate where we've come. Thank you, Dascha. I hope I am not here to see it.
I feel the same. I hope that somehow we may yet avert this.
Greed and bullying to get what we want. I had an experience of that as I was inquiring about u-pick strawberries today. An older white man and 2 young girls, pulled in after me, yet interrupted my conversation to ask about a specific type of strawberry. She said that field wasn't open. Yet when I paid for my pickings, I saw he was picking in the restricted field. If we don't stand up to bullying to avoid conflict we will continue to be bullied.
You're absolutely right, Barb. And, honestly, the extremists and bullies count on the rest of us to not do so.
Like you, I don't see how we'll get beyond the greed. We elect the rich and the lobbyists shout too loud for the rest to be heard over the pounding on the oil drums. I'm actually not worried about the earth. I believe it will rebound in the same way it did after it was destroyed by the cataclysmic impact of the meteor (asteroid?) that ended the age of the dinosaurs. It will look different, I know, but I believe it will survive. It's humanity I worry about. We're making the earth inhospitable for our species. I hope we soon choose wisdom instead of promises 🙏
I also think the Earth will rebound. Humans may well be writing the script of our own extinction, though.