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Neglecting Top and Bottom Lines

I worry we co-invest in big private and public corporate assault on Earth, on environmentalism, on longer-term ecologic. Really, honey? That's too bad. Why not also see long-term assault as the unintended outcome of short-term neglect of cooperative care-giving, healthy nurturing behavior, Golden Rule economic and ecological behavior, like we learned in Sunday School? Well, yes, I guess I can see that. And yet, responsibility for neglect is not the accountability for injustice I seek for assault on climate health, landscapes of regenerative, rather than degenerative, potential, resonant slow-growth multicultural fertility, organic resilience, full color octaves of strong-hued eloquence, resonance for future Earth reweaving regenerators. I wonder if it helps to remember that assault derives from learned fear-mongering critical-event behavior, while neglect speaks to more chronic ecosystems of over-investment in short-term corporate ego-inflation, rather than short-thru-long-term ego-eco bicameral economic regenerative balance? WinWin regenerativity is big corporate's WinLose assault for survival target. I think you give them too much evil conspiracy credit and not enough human neglect of ecological long-term mindfulness credit. When positive growth trends are measured only in producing accumulation of wealth for investors, both taxpayers and shareholders, without any thought to quantities of resources consumed in exchange for this production, then this further feeds short-term neglect of long-term investment in care-giving and receiving and cooperative co-arising long-term consuming-producing mindfulness. You are reminding me of all the corporations I have ever known with 4-generation Mission Statements about their corporate Original Intent, yet, at best, 4-quarter profit-making projections, positive budgetary outcome wish lists. And then, too, we have the 4-generation campaign promises derived from public corporation officials' ReGenerative Constitutional Intent, yet, at best, a 6-year re-election cycle, and more likely 4-year, or even just 2. Yes, we do seem to have a degenerative tension between the post-revolutionary Constitution's Original Intent to keep this democratizing revolution going, for cooperating with the healthy wealth of Earth and our nation-state neighbors, as diplomatically and economically possible, and within our own multiculturing liberties and justices, mercies and re-acclimating redefinitions of peace as restraining tolerance for those terrorizing differences we could never nutritionally celebrate, tearing families from their homes, children from their terrorizing/terrorized parents, young adults from their malnourished self-medicating Business As Competitively Usual neighborhood not so neighborly environments. Democratizing intended Constitutions speak of co-arising health-wealth, where one could not become, much less sustain, without the other; where co-investment in politics of democratic growth, maturation, mutual acclimation, creolization of Elite with NonElite enculturation, are drawn within the loops and pointing dots of periods and episodic commas and objectives for Earth's co-arising health and fertile wealthy prosperity, as rich iconic compost and cooperative economic climates, regenerate healthy political landscapes less likely to neglect ecological values when drawing economic corporate wisdom's co-operative co-gravitating original and bottom lines.

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