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The living world is being torn apart, due to a comprehensive failure by almost all governments to defend it from commerce and greed. We need a new ethics, that treats an assault on our life support systems as an assault on us all. ipbes.net/news/ipbes-glo…
Much of what we were brought up to believe was right - economic expansion, industrial "progress", the pursuit of private affluence - is exposed as not only wrong but lethal. The moral codes of previous generations can't help us here. We need a new one.
Today we discovered that the entire living planet is in a death spiral: the most important news humanity has ever received. So .... this is the @BBCNews top headline:
Someone at the BBC decided that a baby being born was more important. Imagine how future generations will judge such people.
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