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In reply to the discussion: Does anybody else feel the stark realization [View all]Moostache
(11,204 posts)Climate Change is not going away because we stopped paying attention to it in the immediate...
Massive levels of state owned debts is another crisis on the horizon...run away inflation, too.
This economic collapse is going to rival the Great Depression by the fall - expect the unemployment claims for April to really shock the planet; and then the slavish devotion of the powers-that-be to protect the profiteers and ownership class (their only true bosses) first will come into conflict with basic math - there are too many people that have nothing (and thus nothing to lose) to hold them at bay...
Once you put humans into no win situations and make them desperate, you create the most dangerous animal on the planet - black mambas with an attitude and opposable thumbs and access to weapons of war with impunity...
A global jubilee is desperately needed. If we can have people use Leviticus as a cudgel to beat on homosexuals, then we can also plumb that text for good too:
Biblically, it is a year of emancipation and restoration. In the book of Leviticus, the Lord declares that a year of Jubilee be held every 50th year and that it be a special year of pardoning of sins. Slaves were to be freed, debts forgiven, and land returned to its original owner (Leviticus 25).
We need to start over and we need to do so in a more sustainable and resource based manner...this current situation is just a shove in the proper direction, if we take it. (I doubt we will...)