…rinking again, starts to feel like you would be giving all of these other, truly wonderful things up. If I start drinking again, it will be me making the conscious choice to be less healthy. To have a less satisfying and fulfilling relationship with my family and loved ones. To be, physic…

…nking again, starts to feel like you would be giving all of these other, truly wonderful things up. If I start drinking again, it will be me making the conscious choice to be less healthy. To have a less satisfying and fulfilling relationship with my family and loved ones. To be, physica…

Let’s begin with the obvious and visible problems of climate change and mass extinction. What do they really mean, in hard economic terms? Well, something like this. The world’s animals, plants, trees, water, and air were turned into money. “Capitalized”, if you like. So much so that we the planet’s climate was destabilized, and human beings triggered the first mass extinction for a geological age. We ripped through the bees, birds, fish, oceans — and turned them into money. We literally “made money” out of them — some of us, anyways.