I believe the Brazilian Minister for the Environment, who is responsible for the Amazonian rainforest, cogently puts it as:
Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion. We are demolishing, poisoning, destroying all life-systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs our children will not be able to pay ... We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.
The source of these short-sighted, destructive actions by a collective humanity is not mere selfishness or greed but the mistaken belief that this short life-span of ours is our only life to live. Since we've got only one shot at this, might as well let the world go to damn — to hell with our descendants. A dramatic shift in consciousness has to occur before we can close this chapter of Kali Yuga and usher in the enlightened age of Satya Yuga.
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