American culture often relates to money. Pehaps the banking model that follows will help some understand the obvious. To watch the attached video, click on the “watch on youtube” button in the lower portion of the video image. 

We might compare Earth’s environment to a multinational bank, but with Mother Nature as the CEO in charge of the web of life, mineral wealth, and natural forces. At a steady and reasonable level of “transactions,” we operate within our “credit limit,” and the all the efficiencies available to Mother Nature recycle our waste “deposits” safely and efficiently. She automatically recovers and restores all reasonable “withdrawals” that we take to live. However, Mother Nature views excessive withdrawals as bank robbery and sees improper deposits as a bad check. Her “accounting department” sends us “fee notices” in the form of global warming, toxic chemical effects, pandemics, cancer, war, mass extinctions, and famine. These “externalities” never appear on government or corporate balance sheets. The real debt we carry would scare the socks, pants, and everything else off us, and portends a collapse of current mega-Ponzi accounting scam used to justify greed. Lemmings and spies also predict what happens if we continue using a flawed accounting system: