Steering wheels come with responsibilities. They also come with side view mirrors, rear view mirrors, transparent windows and windshields so that we can be fully aware of our surroundings. Only then will we be able to minimize accidents.

But what if all our mirrors are distorted and our windows and windshields are splattered with gunk so that we can’t see clearly. Worse yet, what if a powerful force is deliberately distorting our mirrors and throwing gunk at our windows and windshields in order to prevent us from seeing clearly just because they make a hefty profit when we get into accidents?

Wouldn’t We, the People, get them to cut it out?

Well, concealment capitalism is that powerful force. Today was trash day in our neighborhood and every house had a large can out for pickup. If there was no weekly trash pickup, we would quickly discover that the lifestyles we lead today in the global North are completely unsustainable as we would be buried under our own waste within a year. It is only by periodically removing the waste we generate and concealing it in far off landfills that the economic system persuades us that happiness derives from consuming more and more stuff.

Animal agriculture depends upon concealment capitalism for its existence and growth. Week old animal body parts would be grey, rotting and unappetizing without being refrigerated and chemically camouflaged into looking bright red and appetizing. When activists from the Animal Save Movement spotlighted the operation of Farmer John’s slaughterhouse in the city of Los Angeles, the corporation closed the slaughterhouse and moved its grisly operations to a remote place far from the prying eyes of such protestors.

Concealment capitalism is now threatening to destroy the planet rather than letting us responsibly pilot the Climate Steering Wheel that each of us is gifted with on Spaceship Earth. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, species extinctions, ocean dead zones and climate change. Yet concealment capitalism ignores that cow in the room and incessantly promotes animal foods in order to make us chronically ill for the health care industry to profit off us.

During V-COP12, a Keynote speaker and food scientist, Dr. Camila Perussello said in effect that she would not eat animal foods to quench her hunger for the same reason that she would not drink wall paint to quench her thirst. Yes, wall paint does have water as its base, but it also has other substances that make it unwise to drink. Likewise, animal foods have macronutrients as their base, but they also have carcinogens, dioxins and other toxic substances that make them unwise to eat.

Concealment capitalism also blares incessantly about fossil fuels thereby distracting us from taking the necessary action with our Climate Steering Wheel. Concealment capitalism doesn’t breathe a word about the cooling sulphate aerosols co-emitted with CO2 when we burn fossil fuels, thereby persuading us to actually try and kill ourselves off faster than if we carried on business as usual and plowed straight ahead with our Climate Steering Wheel.

Concealment capitalism is therefore incompatible with a Climate Healing civilization where everyone is expected to responsibly steer their Climate Steering Wheel on Spaceship Earth routinely.

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Heal the planet.
Eat plants.
Love animals.
Plant trees.

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