Vote With Your Wallet

We’re in the midst of an environmental crisis; one of the greatest challenges of our time, another being slavery. I won’t qualify it by adding “modern” before “slavery”. It’s existed for thousands of years. When will it stop? When evil people no longer exist? When will that be? While there are bad people actively fuelling the environmental crisis, there are regular people, as well, who simply can’t afford to buy electric or hydrogen-powered cars, for example. That’s an obvious problem in most cases. Wouldn’t everyone like to have solar panels on their roofs? Maybe not everyone, but I’d like to think it would be everyone. Yet most people can’t afford such things. How will a pensioner pay for solar panels and a new car? Only if they have other money to do so. Will poor people be able to buy organic food? Unlikely! Have you seen the prices? Never mind; we’ll just degrade the planet simply because people can’t afford to make changes, meanwhile money was invented by people. It doesn’t actually exist. It’s fictitious nonsense. It’s designed to keep everyone in their place, to the extent of paying less for some jobs and more for others. So it’s possible to get more, but many people won’t, and as a result all job roles are fulfilled to keep the economy running as those “in charge” want. I understand the reasoning – if we were all rich, who would empty the bins? That’s a vital service that we can’t do without in our industrialised world. There’s another way of organising society. But I won’t delve into that now.

Even with the affordability issue, choices can still be made as to what exactly you are going to spend your hard-earned money on. Will you buy floss from a supermarket just because it’s convenient while you’re there, or will you buy it online from a business producing / selling eco-friendly, sustainable dental floss? Is shopping online inconvenient? Isn’t it more convenient? We can actually take back power, as it were, simply by choosing what we spend our money on. If enough of us choose sustainable products, the unsustainable ones will stop being produced. They’re mainly being made to make money, so if they don’t fulfil that goal, the companies making them will cease production of them in that way and change for the better. And we don’t have to ask politicians to step in – when we do, how long does it usually take to get anything even considered, and then any actions are often disappointing to some degree at least. That’s politics, influenced by economics due to such factors as sponsorship. Who’s really “in charge”? But if the people decide to spend their money differently, things can change very quickly. In our current world, that’s one way to create a true democracy that actually works. Money talks. Vote with your wallet.