Money and Environment
by The-Environmentalist
For a large part of humanity, life is geared towards inexhaustible substitute satisfaction, with the consequence of despair and lack of perspective. One lives in the idea of being an all-in good person, in danger of neglecting the principles of God or ignoring righteous behaviour.
Egoism, greed, materialism, pomposity, violence, humiliation, ruthlessness, deceit, lies, contempt, meanness, envy, intrigue, hostility, anger, hatred and exploitation have become synonymous with permanent (economic) growth. Selfish greed for profit maximisation is a sin that eventually becomes the norm.
Man is ruthless towards nature and strives for profit without understanding. It is all about money and greed.
Well, big corporations have to make money - but at any cost?
Ammonia turns into fine dust in the atmosphere and is an important factor in the issue of air pollution. Fine dust causes heart and lung disease, it reduces lung function and causes cancer. In Germany alone, 47,000 people die prematurely from breathing in fine dust. Ammonia in the form of gas as well as methane gas are the worst greenhouse gases and 300 times worse than other greenhouse gases. Ammonia gas is caused by livestock farming in large quantities and also by too many people in a small space.
Virtual numbers rule our lives.
We are making crazy discoveries, seeing gravitational waves at a distance of 1.3 million light years, including a proton radius 1,000 times smaller (a proton is 0.8409 femtometres in size - a femtometre is an SI unit of length equal to 10-15 metres).
The so-called Higgs boson, an elementary particle from the Standard Model of particle physics, was discovered at Cern....
Where is the interest in our environment?
The results of stock market and football matches are of much greater importance.
Nature was given to us and we are destroying it, inexorably and at an increasing rate. Countries with growing populations will face big problems - but only together can we change this.
Published on 1 March 2017