John Boyle, Mullumbimby
While all those folks who marched and protested for action on climate change should be applauded, we need to stop, consider and mount more and larger protests against the cause of climate chaos.
Rampant consumer capitalism, ‘Casino’ capitalism, the worldwide addiction to the consumption of ‘things’, mindless international tourism, endless wars and the exploitation of at least a billion animals each year.
Unless those issues are addressed and our behaviour modified, we will ‘eat the future of our descendants’.


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