There is no doubt that the wealthy have become wealthier and that the poor have remained poor.

By Toby Reid VPOE

In human history, the gap between the rich and the poor has never been wider. While this imbalance among our species is currently at its peak, it is happening precisely as our long-term viability and sustainability appears in its darkest hour.

Some have suggested that the wealthier part of the human spectrum are ‘hoarding for the apocalypse’, a grim future of depleted resources that will turn humans on themselves, ultimately collapsing our species, and likely precipitating the collapse of thousands of other species in the process.

The apocalyptic part may very well prove to be true, but to suggest that the wealthier people are somehow foreseeing this calamity and acting in a way to get ready for it is simply giving them too much credit (plus, you can’t eat gold).

We are in this evolutionary mess because we have been hell bent on amassing as much wealth as we can. We have falsely bought in to the ideology that more is better and that growth, no matter the cost, is good. It’s our state of being that has brought about a devastatingly harsh looking world, not the other way around. Read the complete Post.