obstacles to Earthen salvation.

Politics and religion are heavily affecting our discussions of what is essential and necessary to transform society into a naturally sustainable process.

Certain aspects of modern culture in the U.S.A. and "first-world" societies cultivate problems that logically transcend the reactionary public conversations.

1~ Reliance on fossil fuels and electricity is depleting the land, air and oceans.

2~ Our buildings, streets and infrastructure such as water and sewage are typically being used to full capacity, with repairs moving slower than the rate of decay.

3~ A majority of people in the U.S.A. have never killed or grown the food that they eat every day.

4~ Bio and genetic engineering are replacing natural species of crops and livestock, making food that requires corporate chemicals to thrive.

5~ Democracy originating from the U.S.A. defined itself through Revolution that deliberately cast off a foreign nation's military and asserted moral and legal rights for all people everywhere, in writing.

6~ Peace and freedom are never created or maintained through war or intimidation.

All of the value in "supply and demand" logic that has always been the rational validity of Capitalism and Free Market Economies was transformed when the mathematics of the financial delivery system move from the realm of billions into trillions...
just because people lied about numbers being digitally traded between banks, governments and corporations.
Bookkeepers added three zeros to global financial markets. ( It is an interesting coincidence that this massive increase in mathematical economic modelling occurred shortly after computer scientists successfully developed the first "Petaflop" processing speed (1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second) .