Feel Free Read Economic & Environmental Essays 1997 - 2017 RTF

This book argues that Institutionalized Social Thievery (IST) is the root cause behind both climate change and economic inequality. IST is defined as an institutional and legal framework that allows the owning classes to legally steal the wealth created by the working classes. IST is also the economic basis for the rise and growth of civilizations since the time of the earliest civilizations in India, China, Egypt, Mesopotamia and MesoAmerica. It further argues that the rise of IST also helped to undermine initially slowly, and then more rapidly, the evolutionary adaptive package (EAP) and the evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) with which human first branched out from the ape lineage - namely, cooperative breeding and cooperative foraging. Instead, human culture arising from and fanned by IST introduced two new traits in human beings (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) - greed and hubris - two traits that are absent in all other species in the biosphere. Greed refers to the desire of human individuals to own, control or dominate a much greater portion of the ecosystem in which the species lives than what is required for an individual's survival and reproduction while hubris refers to the false pride that humans have that they can do anything with their ecosystem with total disregard to damaging their own ecosystem and the costs that have to be paid for pursuing and trying to fulfill their own individual greed. The book uses scientific and empirical evidence to justify this argument. The book further shows that cooperative breeding and foraging was also the basis for the formation of the dynamical human social system and explodes the myth that one fine morning individual humans and their nuclear families decided to come together and form social groups and human society. The human story of evolution is exactly the opposite of the dominant view that is variously touted as the scientific truth that individuals came together to form society - humans started with biological social formations and then after the advent of IST moved towards individualization to the point where all of human society is facing collapse and the species is heading towards extinction. IST also necessitated what I call the Hide Thievery Project by members of the modern human illuminati who seek to hide the truth about social thievery and distort or misrepresent scientific information leading to a situation where today humanity lives amidst utter irrationality. The situation is best described by an observation made by Chanakya, advisor to Chandragupta Maurya in the third century BCE (circa 320 BCE). He observed "Vinaashkale Buddhinaash" which when translated into English reads "“It is observed that people become irrational at the time of their destruction”. The book counters this irrationality to arrive at a list of suggestions as to what actions ordinary citizens can take to tackle this irrationality and change the world.