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Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices.
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I know that not everyone is greedy and stupid, but the people that are get to make the decisions that pull us further and faster into catastrophic ends for their own personal gain and the average person is completely unable to stop it at this point. Everyone knows the next ten to twenty years, we're going to see cascading failures, if we even have to wait that long. Droughts, food shortages, desertification, algal blooms, melting ice caps - these things have all been snowballing for decades already and we're doing nothing to slow it down because to do anything would harm ~~the economy~~ rich people's bank accounts.
This is it. This is the great filter. The rich killing the planet and everyone getting firsthand experiences of the old cree proverb.
I don't mean to diminish your comment, which I agree with very heavily. I just think that you (and others) would find it interesting to know that I looked it up, and apparently that "Cree proverb" is neither of Cree origin nor all that old. It was seemingly said by Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki woman (Canada First Nations, I believe?), and first published in 1972.
Regardless of origin, though, it's extremely poignant and applicable here.