chain of waste, paradigm of death

jakob and i were connecting these dots last night:

agricultural subsidies = meat and other bad food (corn syrup) is too cheap = people are obese = health care costs

oil subsidies = gas is too cheap = people drive too much = people are obese = health care costs

agricultural subsidies + oil subsidies = meat and oil are too cheap = overuse and overproduction = excess greenhouse gases = global warming

it seems that if we really were living in a true free market economy, a lot of these problems would solve themselves…….

these subsidies exist because of the persistence of a WWII, militaristic paradigm that is rooted in suspicion and fear. in other words, a death paradigm. so is it any surprise that the number one casualty of this model is LIFE?

Notes

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    couldn’t agree more with this. The documentary “King Corn” provided me with some further insight on this whole dilemma,...
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