The EU and the US will have to provide massive support for Brazil to save it from its own contradictions. Basically, the problem is the poverty of the lower half of society. At the same time, Brazil presents Europe and the US with many opportunities and synergies. Europe has been awakened by the Russian onslaught, the US by the assault on the Capitol. These energies must be directed to creating world order. Brazil, and the Amazon, are linchpins. Instead of civil wars, let's have real wars on poverty. But, crucially, not with replicas of western consumer economies, but with something new that is based on ecology and community. If there is a way forward for humanity, these two words are its keys. The consumer economy,m by definition, pivots on desire. Real desire for goods or induced desire (by propaganda, as JK Galbraith explained in The New Industrial State). By contrast Buddhism pivots on defeating desire. Which is the superior system? Which one opens to a better future?

The EU and the US will have to provide massive support for Brazil to save it from its own contradictions. Basically, the problem is the poverty of the lower half of society. At the same time, Brazil presents Europe and the US with many opportunities and synergies. Europe has been awakened by the Russian onslaught, the US by the assault on the Capitol. These energies must be directed to creating world order. Brazil, and the Amazon, are linchpins. Instead of civil wars, let's have real wars on poverty. But, crucially, not with replicas of western consumer economies, but with something new that is based on ecology and community. If there is a way forward for humanity, these two words are its keys. The consumer economy,m by definition, pivots on desire. Real desire for goods or induced desire (by propaganda, as JK Galbraith explained in The New Industrial State). By contrast Buddhism pivots on defeating desire. Which is the superior system? Which one opens to a better future?

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