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Cooperation Creates The World
“Finally, the political conversation is shifting in a way that undermines our nation’s deepest principle. People are actually arguing about whether it might be a good thing to kill off society’s weakest members. A member of a planning commission from the San Francisco area took to Facebook to suggest we should just let coronavirus take its course. Lots of people would die, he wrote, primarily old and sick people, but that would take the pressure off Social Security and lower health care costs. There would be more jobs and housing available. And as for homeless people, when they died it would “fix what is a significant burden on our society….” — Heather Cox Richardson
“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.” ― Bill Mollison
Nature does a fine job of cooperating and creating, but something has happened to human beings. They have somehow evolved to the point where they can’t even see how essential it is to cooperate with each other, much less with nature itself. Humans have become a wrecking ball, smashing everything in sight, even their own habitats.
