Why I won't be going to church this Christmas

Last Christmas I was in Christchurch staying with my well off son and his family. They have everything, big house, great jobs, five lovely healthy kids, bulging pantry and fridges and toys that pile up in corners. We all went to their Catholic church on Christmas Day. On the way in I noticed a little box which said I think "For the Poor". As the happy almost swinging service began I started to think of the gap between rich and poor and how it is widening all the time because of the destructive money system we have. You see I wrote a book on the topic and know a bit about the money system and how it transfers wealth from poor to rich and ravages the planet.

Then when we came to sing some carol I started to cry quietly. My oldest granddaughter asked why I was crying. I said I was crying for the world, and I was.

This year we have had the almost useless Copenhagen climate summit, and Michael Ruppert has completed his ground breaking peak oil film Collapse. And the searing images of The Age of Stupid film are still vivid in my head. My daughter Susanna and I had a phone call last night and she is really annoyed about Copenhagen. She said she supposed her kids just might not have children of their own. That got me thinking. In fact waking in the night. Michael Ruppert and his world population graph, the only one he said he showed at his talks. Exponential growth climbed steeply at the same time we as a species started to use oil.

Then this year the government has decided to carve a four way motorway though Kapiti to Levin to please the road transport lobby. Seems they are hell bent on covering the place with tarmac. PIty it takes eight gallons of oil to make one tyre. Pity electric cars can never be built to replace all the millions of internal combustion engine cars. It takes too much energy. Pity ethanol will never be a goer on a big scale.

Well I have a whole lot of my books (Healthy Money Healthy Planet – Developing Sustainability through new money systems) sitting in the back room and I am going to sell them off for $15 including postage. ($25 for two or $30 for three) The word needs to get out that you can't begin to tackle climate change without understanding that it is the money system itself. As Michael Ruppert says "Until you change the money system you change nothing".

You see the money system dictates that the money supply must keep increasing and therefore that the economy must keep growing. It doesn't take much to understand that there can't be infinite growth on a finite planet. And now we are kiling the planet. Of course the developed countries want economic growth and they must "balance" their commitment to preventing climate change with their desire to grow their economy. Struth, it's obvious that Copenhagen wouldn't bring much progress. Nobody is addressing the right question yet.

Peak oil happened probably in 2005 and the exponential rise in oil prices in 2008. Then in September 2008 the bubble burst and the world economy collapsed. Big recession. Unbelievably big bailouts of banks. Too big to fail.
Will someone please connect the world economy issue with the climate change issue and the peak oil issue? It is all part of the same picture. Why did top bankers meet in secret on a secluded island (The Creatures from Jekyll Island is the book) in 1913 to nut out the Federal Reserve?

So if you want to give me a Christmas present, then watch The Age of Stupid and watch Collapse. Also read books on the money system and start asking the right questions to connect the big issues. And this Christmas I have given my older grandchildren just a packet of seeds and a few jokes. But I won't be going to church. Church is place that makes me cry. My daughter may not have any grandchildren. Oh how sad, sad, sad.