The Economics of Life and the Economics of Death

<p>What do you see when look around the world today? Are you instantly a little exhausted just scanning the headlines? I am. Here&rsquo;s what I see.</p> <p>I see a planet scarred and broken. Whose lungs are black and whose bones are melting. Ravaged and raped by centuries of exploitation, treated like another slave, another commodity, strip-mined for profit. But now the oceans are rising in rebellion. Now the fire and flood are beginning to whisper.</p> <p>I see economies stagnating. I see democracy slowly withering away. I see people in such psychological distress that it goes largely unnoticed. I see rage, ignorance, despair, emptiness, futility, mistrust, and depression all rising. I see whole new kinds of grief and mourning taking shape, like &ldquo;climate grief.&rdquo; I see hate gathering like a hurricane, in nation after nation &mdash; people, disappointed in empty promises of prosperity that never came to be, turn on their friends, neighbours, colleagues.</p> <p>I see a world in profound, deep distress, my friends.</p> <p>I was asked recently: what&rsquo;s the work of the 21st century? The answer is as simple as it is hard: the work of this century is healing the terrible wounds of the last few centuries. The injuries of capitalism, of technology, of &ldquo;growth.&rdquo; Of societies and organizations and minds still built for and on &mdash; at least if we are honest &mdash; supremacy, patriarchy, bigotry, too. Of a backwards, thoughtless way of life that posited everything &mdash; including us &mdash; is only there to be exploited, abused, and thrown away &mdash; that we celebrated as &ldquo;civilized&rdquo;, as &ldquo;the end of history&rdquo;. The work of the 21st century is all that. It begins with a certain kind of mindset, and goes from organizational to institutional to social to cultural to political.&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://eand.co/the-economics-of-life-and-the-economics-of-death-e101fce63dc8"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>