$540 Billion in Public Subsidies to Create $12 Trillion in Environmental Damage
An Environment Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM ClimateHealers.org
September 2021

In an economic system that is based on making money off death, disease and destruction, death for animals, diseases for humans and destruction for the planet, it is perfectly understandable that such subsidies exist since anything that increases animal deaths, chronic diseases and planetary destruction is likely to "grow" the economy.

Governments around the world have been subsidizing the destruction of the planet, according to a new report published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) and the UN Development Program (UNDP).

By providing $540 Billion in subsidies to the animal agriculture industry, our governments have caused $12 Trillion in environmental damage on an annual basis. If we don't take action to halt such perverse subsidies, our governments are expected to triple them by the year 2030, assuming our civilization survives the blowback from such planetary abuse.

In an economic system that is based on making money off death, disease and destruction, death for animals, diseases for humans and destruction for the planet, it is perfectly understandable that such subsidies exist since anything that increases animal deaths, chronic diseases and planetary destruction is likely to "grow" the economy.

Clearly, this cannot continue and it is high time that we evolve a new economic model based on respect, health and regeneration, respect for animals, health for humans and regeneration for the planet. We need to bring a whole new meaning to the term, "treated like animals," in order to turn this around.

Our current economic model is based the false axiom of consumerism, the false belief that the pursuit of happiness is best accomplished by stoking and satisfying a never-ending series of latent desires, the "Greed is Good" rule, and the false axiom of supremacism, the false belief that life is a competitive game in which those who have gained an advantage may possess, enslave and exploit animals, nature and the disadvantaged for their pursuit of happiness, the "Might is Right" rule.

An economic model based on "Greed is Good" and "Might is Right" is immoral and fundamentally unsustainable. Expecting to create a sustainable civilization on these false axioms is like expecting the scientific revolution to happen while believing that the sun goes around the earth and not the other way around. Without Galileo, there would have been no theory of gravity and no Newton.

A sustainable civilization with a new economic model has to be based on the true axiom of inner peace, the idea that the pursuit of happiness is best accomplished by seeking it within ourselves, the "Self-Mastery" rule, and the true axiom of unity, the idea that all life is one family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam) in which we each bring our unique skills to give all we can, receive all we need and become all we are, the "Vitality Code" rule of Dr. Shelley Ostroff.

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