Traditionally, we look to political matters for environmental concerns. We vote for someone who’ll do this, or that, or promises the other. Ten years pass and we’re in a bigger, more confusing mess. What do promises give us?

1) Promises ensure that your investments are safe. When in fact they’re being run (and traded) to the ground;

2) Promises ensure that your promisee can move on to other pressing matters;

3) Promises ensure that you don’t know who to turn to for answers to ecological catastrophe; and

4) Promises ensure that you believe what you’re told when asked if constant development is necessary.

Ladies and gentlemen, the age of trusting business ethics is over. We are flawed until we have the opportunity (or create the opportunity) to oppose and suppress risky behaviour.

This relates to anything and whatever. It used to be okay to turn the other cheek – but we risk progress by turning the other way. Canada stood and watched as our forests were raped then continually cloned and replanted. Households rejoiced when neighbourhoods sprung up on overpaved bogs. You and your husband jumped for joy when fifty grand was ‘made available’ to you. You bought a car; and jumped some more.

Position yourself to make a change in your lifetime. Individualism is key; community is relevant. It’s time to learn to farm. It’s time to eat less meat. It’s time to let those people who prayed on your manufactured dreams go broke.

In the words of Fat Mike, a true American hero ~ “it’s okay, allow yourself a little hate. hatred is not so bad, when directed at injustice”.