I have known since the early 1970s that our growth-dependent, grossly materialistic, mercenary, rapacious & driven global economy is inherently unsustainable on our finite, vulnerable & (even back then) overpopulated planet, #SpaceshipEarth. 
Initially, I assumed Western leaders would also recognise the existential challenge this posed & rise to it. It wasn't until well into the 1980s, after they had put this economy into super-global & turbo mode, that I realised they had no such intention, but had gone into denial.
Nowadays everyone talks about #ClimateChange, but this is just a SYMPTOM of a rapacious economy, which our leaders, & presumably their academic advisors, are STILL in denial of the inherent non-sustainability of.
I put my mind to trying to understand this madness, which can only end in #CivilisationalSuicide, & came up with insights I now tweet about.
My most pertinent insight is the deep connection between the commitment to civilisational suicide via ecocide & to #WhiteSelfGenocide.
My most pertinent insight is the deep connection between the commitment to civilisational suicide via ecocide & to #WhiteSelfGenocide.
Both are vigorously denied by Western leaders & elites, but they would deny them, wouldn't they? Otherwise they would have to admit to their failings & take responsibility for them.
This, however, is what I strongly urge them to do, for the sake of their own children.
This, however, is what I strongly urge them to do, for the sake of their own children.
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