Pretty awesome video... The first comment is amazing as well... Thomas NativeHistory Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Cooperation and Non-violence. The keys Values point to a world entirely different from our present world of violence, corporate greed, and ecological destruction. There are many things that will have to be changed before a truly democratic system with human rights and Green society can exist but one is the tremendous and unfair gap today between the rich and the poor; in fact even between the very rich and the average person. Today in America the best paid one-fifth of the population receives about one half of all national income, while the bottom one-fifth receives less than 4 per cent. The distribution of wealth in America is even more unfair. Here, the top one-half per cent of all property owners control over 25% of all wealth; while the top 5% sit on nearly 70% of wealth and property. What chance does the average person have for exercising his or her democratic rights under these conditions! Both of Americas major political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, are dependent on these corporations and the few super-rich individuals and families associated with them. In fact, nearly all major offices in the US government, whether elected or appointed, are filled by individuals from this corporate network. What chance does democracy have under such conditions? What chance does nature and the environment have? Todays industrial society, driven by a market system based only on profit, is rapidly destroying the very foundations in nature on which human existence depends: air, water, soil, forests, plants and animals, mineral and fuel resources. Over the past century, three-quarters of the Earths original forests have been cut. Mechanized, corporate farming is destroying the soil essential for agricultural production all over the world at an alarming rate. Pollution of rivers and lakes, silting of streams, and depletion of underground aquifers threatens the worlds fresh water supply. Even the Earths atmosphere is being restructured by this profit-driven economy. This list of problems needing immediate solution can go on and on. Corporate funded (using taxayer money and resources of the people) genetic engineering (genetically modified organisms or GMOs ) are creating artificial Frankenfoods which threaten to enter the environment and contaminate a species diversity it has taken nature millions of years to evolve. In society, poverty and lack of opportunity has created a vicious cycle of racism, addiction, economically forced military enlistment, violence, bitterness, and a massive prison industry. youtu.be/7FItlStGMY4
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:17:41 +0000
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