Eliminating our debts

We are in debt, everyone of us. We may think we owe nothing but money, but we are part of a culture that lives now and pays later, believing that the debt will never have to be paid. We don’t care about causing damage or wasting what we don’t need. There seems to be so much for the taking. We believe there’s nothing to pay back because it’s all free, the air, the water, the soil, the flora and fauna, and we can throw away what we don’t use. Same with minerals from the earth, they’re plentiful and cheap. We either live high on the hog or we aspire to it. It’s a human-centred, narcissistic attitude we have. Each generation takes it a little further so we hardly notice things getting so out of hand. We aren’t passing down to younger ones a sense of responsibility and frugality. Instead we’re bypassing our innate checks and balances to pursue every opportunity for pleasure that emerges.
Probably our biggest ‘opportunity’, we reckon, is to be found by exploiting animals. There are rich pickings here despite the need for much cruelty to get the full benefit. We lay to waste on a grand scale, and it’s here we see what true cowards we are … the defenceless animals are massacred (at a rate of 1500 deaths per second), and we do it because we can, because they can’t fight back. If you become vegan you at least eliminate this debt.