RE: Is Our Wasteful Lifestyle Just a Repeating, Instinctual Pattern?
it's almost impossible to have different sects working in coherence to solve issues when one or more sects are benefiting from the ruins cost by the problem.
humans are narcissistic. If they cannot benefit from a thing they rather not do it. when it come to the issue of pollution in third world countries like mine, there is so much indifference. it seems the masses and even the government are unaware of the health implication these toxins can cause--are causing. we do not expect first world countries to be benevolent enough to assume our problem even if they have contributed significantly to it.
Africa has been the dumping ground for many toxic waste since we are bottom of the pyramid, and though there are international laws prohibiting such, it is done covertly.
Even some foreign countries who come to do business here, pollute the environment. Like we have the oil spillage in the delta region of Nigeria, which billions will be spent to reclaim the rivers and lands polluted. Still there is an indifference towards the task of cleaning up the areas involved.
So I've recently discovered. Waste going there under the guise of "second hand goods." This is globalisation. Dump responsibility somewhere else.
All animals are narcissistic and we are just being more so if we try to deny we are any better. It's a basic, survival instinct. We don't do anything if we can't gain something from it, even of its just a feeling of having done something nice.
The first line of that is probably true even without the second line. Communities, or sects, work because everyone within them has the same values. However, different sects can often have opposing values, which makes it hard for them to work together. Hope that makes sense.
Thank you for a thought provoking response.
You're welcome.