The results of a Google search for a meaning of the word greed:
Greed – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greed is an excessive desire to possess wealth, goods, or abstract things of value with the intention to keep it for one’s self. Greed is inappropriate expectation. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed
Humankind has been trying to deal with the greedy since the time of Jesus Christ. Christians tried to add their values to the “art” of live and let live. While that idea may not have been a roaring failure, it has not come near to a roaring success. For many who claim Christian values – talking the talk is preferred to walking the walk.
Personal wealth, at any cost, is bad for a country, bad for Jesus Christ and bad for the Christian faith.
Personal wealth , for most, is measured in “dollars and cents” ie. money. Jesus Christ, in his day, noticed that money needed controls that, apparently were not in evidence in a temple. He had words with some money changers.
Whether one says money is the root of all evil or the love of money is the root of all evil – that does point to money. While much time has passed since the Christians’ Jesus Christ walked the face of the earth, the “infection” side of money is still in evidence. And modern humankind has started to disassociate the “love of money” with evil social consequences that stance can cause.
With the disconnect of greed from the consequences of greed – greedy humankind can “feel better” when it looks out on soup lines, wrecked economies, nuclear plant destruction that has deeply disturbing social consequences, burning tap water and wars that enrich while killing thousands. Something is “bad wrong” when humankind does not attempt to solve that problem.
The problem makers are not only immune to the consequences of their actions against humankind, Mother Nature also gets a “thumb-in-the-nose” and “the waving of four.” Arkansas recently had some kind of a earth-tremor and stopped their fracking for fear of a full-blown earthquake.
Quite possibly, seeing relationships is difficult. One blogger, over at the Wall Street Journal saw business life and social life(especially the problems thereof) as being unrelated. And perhaps 42 million adult Americans who cannot read – likely missed that post.
Humankind is not the only victim of greed. Mother Nature is also a victim. And Mother Nature has been known to “wipe the slate clean” and start all over again with new managers of earth. It looks like she is physically down-sizing as She searches for responsible caretakers of earth. From dinosaur-size down to man-size is the current state. Who cares about greed? Mother Nature cares!
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