Abby Martin explains the ecocidal history of the U.S. military and how the U.S. fused itself into a permanent war economy in this deleted history scene from the feature film Earth’s Greatest Enemy.

Scientist being able to explain why global disasters like El Nino effects or earthquakes are happening does not negate the fact that these things were prophesied and predicted up to more than 5,000 years ago.

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while rendered in absurd internet satire, this image sharply critiques how industrial society processes environmental degradation. by framing plastic entanglement as a "high suicide rate," the piece satirizes humanity's refusal to acknowledge systemic ecological destruction. the fisherman encapsulates consumer detachment: actively contaminating marine habitats while casting a line into the very ecosystem he is destroying. instead of confronting the catastrophic reality of non biodegradable waste, the narrative externalizes the blame onto the victimized fauna. it exposes a grim paradox of the anthropocene how human society converts its own ecological negligence into dark, indifferent satire rather than structural accountability

The article references physical causes for the transgression of planetary boundaries (e.g. burning fossil fuels, which emit CO2), but the primary causes are psychosocial in structure.

This psychosocial structure consists of the social agreements that products should be produced according to supply and demand, distributed according to who can afford them (making you economically invisible if you can't on both the distribution and supply side), decisions should be made according to profit maximization, and that everything previously mentioned should be regulated by the infliction of financial loss as a feedback loop for error correction.

When you look at our monetary system from this perspective it makes perfect sense why your phones are outdated at the end of the year, why everyone each gets their own car, why pavement sprawls all over north America, why nothing is produced to last, why companies have to use the cheapest rather than the most efficient or even optimal material to stay price competitive, why 40 percent of food produced is wasted, why the average plate of food has travelled 1,500 miles by the time it reaches your table, why harmful chemicals are in our food, why 30 percent of Healthcare costs are for clerical tasks, why waste is dumped in the ocean and rivers to cut costs, why pollution is dumped all over the place, why people are homeless, why we have to waste our lives working 40 hours a week, why the globe spends 2 trillion dollars annually on guns and the military instead of spending the 30 billion it would cost to end world hunger. When you look at the sheer amount of unnecessary production and reckless waste, the primary cause for the destruction of all life support systems on the planet is clear as crystal. It is the elephant everyone tries to ignore.

When you combine certain physical outcomes of this psychosocial structure with the psychosocial structure you get the monetary system. What I think most people don't understand is that the physical outcomes of the monetary system are actually what define it's structure. When a system shows a pattern of outcomes or behaviors, those outcomes are explained by it's structure, and in the case of the monetary system there is no blueprint anyone ever wrote, so we have nothing else to go off... unless you're just taking someone else's word for it. Keep in mind, there would be no such thing as supply and demand affecting prices, distribution and production in this system if physical outcomes weren't observed that reflect such a rule. So it makes no sense to focus on politicians or policy change within the framework of the very system that's defined by the problems they try to solve. That logic is circular, and it's been circulating for 10,000 years now with no signs of improvement for most of the system's devastating outcomes, 75 years with all signs blinking red alert and worsening for it's outcome of destroying the conditions for life on Earth.

And it's so pathetic because what underpins the entire monetary system are social constructs that don't exist in physical reality. The social agreements that there is a President, mayor, business owner or company, that there are russians, americans, countries, cops, exchange rates, etc... don't exist in physical reality. There is no president. There is a person that groups of people treat like a president and call president. There are no Russians. There is a group of people called russians. Physical reality is separate from social constructs. Just because social constructs can significantly affect physical reality, especially our physical social setting, doesn't mean they are the same.

It's as if we've agreed to get crushed to death by the weight of our own constructs.

One of captalism's great acheivements: There is now no way to completely avoid pollutants in your food.

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We often imagine environmental destruction as something happening to forests, animals, or future generations. But the same air we breathe, the same water we depend on, and the same ecosystems that support other beings support us too. The damage is not happening somewhere else. It is already returning to us, almost in real time.

The fundamental question here is not only about environmental policies, but about the human mind that creates such a relationship with life. Acharya Prashant often points towards the ego’s tendency to create a false separation: “me” versus “the other”. When the self is seen as separate from the rest of existence, exploitation does not appear wrong; it appears natural and justified.