Conscious Economics: Donations, Gifting, Biomimicry – Oh My! Pt 1

Over the past year, I have been very busy with the topic of money and economy. What is money? How does economy work? Why are so many people struggling financially? Why are governments and corporations continuing to drill, frack, deforest and pollute? Is there a connection between this behaviour and economy? Are there alternatives?

Maybe you’re already way ahead of where I started out and you know that money is not actually real… that our interest and debt-based economic systems function by creating new debts to pay back the interest on old debts – and that the only way to do that is to commodify. Commodify services, relationships and natural resources.  This documentary,  Money and Life provides a comprehensive understanding on all of this.

The end result of what I have just described is a world in which we are completely separate – from each other, from nature and from ourselves. If this doesn’t have your attention yet, let me put it another way: the planet cannot sustain life if we keep destroying it in order to monetize it. We are all going to have to find another way to live TOGETHER (and soon!) or…we probably won’t survive at all. MANY of us are already feeling the pain of debt, bankruptcy, unemployment, homelessness, unaffordable health and nutrition costs, and the rage and heartbreak that comes when seeing our beautiful natural world destroyed before our very eyes.