Tagged with capital

Capital today is aligned with the increasing expropriation of natural resources because money is created as interest-bearing debt. This is how the destruction of a forest is, preposterously, counted as an increase in wealth. Unless we are prepared to address the situation at this level, meetings like Rio will be futile. (more)

When I ask people what is missing most from their lives, the most common answer is "community." But how can we build community when its building blocks- -- the things we do for each other -- have all been converted into money? (more)