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"today i wore a black lives
another girl told me that black people
matter shirt to school and
this is what happened:
a boy in my history class proceeded to
tell me that black lives matter is a
waste of time, all lives matter, and that
black people just want to point the
finger at someone and blame racism
for everything.
two boys told me that my shirt is dumb
and that i shouldn't be wearing it
because i'm "not even black"
the lady who works in the oce told
me that if i wore the shirt again i would
be dress coded.
an administrator stopped me in the
quad on the way to my seventh hour
and told me that my shirt was
inappropriate for school and conveys a
message of violence.
are over dramatic and my shirt
therefore is dramatic too.
Wearing this shirt taught me a lot. The
school not only violated my rights
stated in the handbook by telling me i
could be dress coded, but also shows
a sense of ignorance present today in
so many americans. I witnessed
people looking at me dierently, and
judgmentally for one day because of a
simple shirt. People all across our
country witness this everyday just
because of the color of their skin and
that is NOT okay.
This problem is all around us, and it's
time we start realizing that and
standing up for everyone's rights as
american citizens. It's time to put a
stop to the hate and discrimination."
-Angela Castillo

GREEN CAPITALISM: THE GOD THAT FAILED.

Capitalism is, overwhelmingly, the main driver of planetary ecological collapse
From climate change to natural resource overconsumption to pollution, the engine that has powered three centuries of accelerating
economic development, revolutionizing technology, science, culture and human life itself is, today, a roaring out-of-control
locomotive mowing down continents of forests, sweeping oceans of life, clawing out mountains of minerals, pumping out lakes of
fuels, devouring the planets last accessible natural resources to turn them into product, while destroying fragile global ecologies
built up over eons of time. Between 1950 and 2000 the global human population more than doubled from 2.5 to 6 billion. But in
these same decades, consumption of major natural resources soared more than sixfold on average, some much more. Natural gas
consumption grew nearly twelvefold, bauxite (aluminum ore) fifteenfold. And so on. At current rates, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson
says that half the worlds great forests have already been leveled and half the worlds plant and animal species may be gone by the
end of this century.

Corporations arent necessarily evil, though plenty are diabolically evil, but they cant help themselves. Theyre just doing what
theyre supposed to do for the benefit of their shareholders. Shell Oil cant help but loot Nigeria and the Arctic and cook the climate.
Thats what shareholders demand. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and other mining giants cant resist mining Australias abundant coal and
exporting it to China and India. Mining accounts for 19% of Australias GDP and substantial employment even as coal combustion is
the single worst driver of global warming. IKEA cant help but level the forests of Siberia and Malaysia to feed the Chinese mills
building their flimsy disposable furniture (IKEA is the third largest consumer of lumber in the world). Apple cant help it if the cost of
extracting the rare earths it needs to make millions of new iThings each year is the destruction of the eastern Congo violence,
rape, slavery, forced induction of child soldiers, along with poisoning local waterways. Monsanto and DuPont and Syngenta and
Bayer Crop Science have no choice but to wipe out bees, butterflies, birds, small farmers and extinguish crop diversity to secure
their grip on the worlds food supply while drenching the planet in their Roundups and Atrazines and neonicotinoids.

This is how giant corporations are wiping out life on earth in the course of a routine business day. And the bigger the corporations
grow, the worse the problems become.
Richard Smith

www.greenfuse.work