Wave Of Action For A New Economic Paradigm – Economics, Values & Our Collective Fate

Written by Daniel Schmachtenberger, Critical Path Global in support of the Worldwide Wave.
Economics, Values and Our Collective Fate
Underneath and driving all of the major problems in our world is the fact that people are more financially incentivized to perpetuate them than to solve them. As long as killing a whale confers a million dollars of advantage to a fishing company, while leaving it alive confers none, we will continue to hunt whales towards extinction. As long as a millennia old redwood tree is worth no specific amount to us alive, but worth $100k as timber, we will continue destroying the tiny percentage of old growth forests we have left.
Based on a very old, primitive and barbaric dominator worldview, our economic system doesn’t ask if they are ours to take, and doesn’t factor whose balance sheet the costs show up on.
How different is this in its fundamental rationale, than taking Africans as slaves for the economic