Humanity is bound together and empowered to collaborate by means of shared belief in a succession of gods.
At present the god is Money, who rules through the Invisible Hand of the Market, and who requires infinite expansion into a finite space.
This is an impossibility
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As well as demanding an impossibility, the prevailing religion of Money is causing mass extinctions, and destroying the energy balance of our Earth.
This is the modern equivalent of human sacrifice.
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We will eventually, late in the day, reject the dogma of Money and replace it with a reality-based belief.
This will be the understanding that we humans are one part of a vast, intricate ecological web of living things. We will shift towards protecting and healing that web
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..and in doing so, will protect and heal our own societies and economies.
At the moment, it feels that we are making very slow progress, but there will come a point of rapid change.
It is the job of people who are ecologically aware to be prepared to manage the change 4/4