Money And God Worship On An Impoverished Planet

     Poverty and environmental degradation go hand in hand. No matter the false perception given by rising stock and financial markets, the true wealth of the world - the state of the oceans, coral reefs, healthy seabeds, untouched rain forests, biodiversity, diverse and healthy marine life, and so forth - are in serious decline. The world is getting filthier, more degraded, less biologically rich, more contaminated. Financial wealth is ever more concentrated in the hands of a few who for the most part are oblivious to the depletion and suffering. It is they with the most power, financial wealth and ability to change things, and yet they have the least incentives or desire to do so.
      Any decrease in poverty rates will be short lived unless environmental degradation is reversed. If only people would have greater loyalty to the planet on which they depend, and worship less money, power and their imagined religions that they think offer special places in paradise. Worshiping God, but allowing God's earth to be trashed or washed in blood is beyond comprehension.