Historically, the manipulators of people and enforcers of injustice have used religion as the tool for colonizing the mind and body of subjects. Contemporarily, consumerism has been the tool used to make the rich richer, enslave the working class, marginalize minority groups, exploit \u201clesser-developed\u201d nations and degrade mother earth.<\/p>\n
Traveling through Cancun has been a profound and empowering experience. It was ironic, as I spent more time in Cancun, the reality of the United States became clearer. Here in the states we\u2019re told that consumption and growth are the keys to progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Traveling through Cancun has been a profound and empowering experience. It was ironic, as I spent more time in Cancun, the reality of the United States became clearer. Here in the states we\u2019re told that consumption and growth are the keys to progress. In the Global South they are told that you must work for a corporation\u2019s workshop, and your land is no longer yours but a tool for exploitation. The chasm between reckless consumption and consumerism, and social and environmental degradation is vast and creates the actual reality in which we all live: the climate is warming at an alarming rate, world food supplies are dwindling, and the natural world is being eroded beyond the possibility of being healed.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[416,461,306,463,464,465,431],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poverty","tag-campesina","tag-cancun","tag-climate-change","tag-food-shortage","tag-globalize-hope","tag-grassroots","tag-solutions"],"yoast_head":"\n