Despoliation

Can you imagine, the enormous debt that our society has amassed over the last few millennia?
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Every government almost without exception is in debt.
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Billions and billions of $ of it.
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In the case of some countries trillions of $.
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No way can this ever be repaid.
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No way will this ever be repaid.
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The most that governments do is to pay the interest on this debt.
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Many today cannot do even this.

While it may seem that we have escaped more or less scot-free by passing the debt on to future generations.
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The truth is much worse.

We are now paying the price ourselves.

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The destruction of our natural resources for short term gain.
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The increasing disappearance of species.
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The huge poverty around the world caused by the breakdown of societies and cultures.
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This price is paid by our souls.
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Because we know this behaviour is wrong.
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We know it to be unsustainable.

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The just reward for our ignorant, arrogant, deluded despoliation of planet and culture is the ocean of suffering that engulfs our species.
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The wars and atrocities.
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Rape and genocide.
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The brutalized children.
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The slums of the Third World.
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The lives without hope.
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The diseases and famines.
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And in the rich countries, the depression and despair
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Anxiety and fear.
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Emptiness and loneliness.

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The tragic reduction of human potential that leaves even the winners of the rat race among the sorriest rats of all.
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It does not have to be this way.
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It can only change when we want it to change.
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When we become engaged.
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As I say so often are you engaged?
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Your choice, you only have this life once.
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Only a short time ago you could say that some of what I wrote were hypothetical doom scenarios.
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Today they are with us in reality.
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I have moved on to become more engaged.
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Have you?