Wealth Foolishly Defined As The Stock Market's Health

      No matter how deteriorated our environment becomes, no matter how much nuclear weapons proliferate, no matter how much hate, fanaticism, war and terror spread, no matter how incompetent, ruthless and greedy are the leaders, movers and shakers of the world, all that seems to matter is feeding the stock market and ensuring it keeps going up. This artificial measure of wealth does not reflect reality.
       Every single day, as thousands of tons of plastics and other non biodegradable contaminants enter the oceans, one of a number of major threats to the health and well being of humanity and the planet, no one cares. The only game in town is the stock market. Wealth means its health, and foolishly nothing else.