Or it was. Ecologically, the planet developed over billions of years into a self-correcting system. Not perfect. Not static. But capable of absorbing disruption and finding equilibrium — when left with enough margin to do so.
We have been removing the margin.
There is no ideological argument required here. No party position needed. Just the observation that we are spending principal and calling it income. Extracting what took millennia to accumulate and booking it as this quarter’s profit.
That is not economics. That is the oldest con in the book.
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