Cars? Electronic toys? Consumer appliances? Industrial ag? Big Pharma drugs? These beckon the rest of the world, and demand more pollution to produce and transport them. They are changing the world’s weather patterns, as the Ladakhs now know all too well.

But it’s not in our hands. Our “leaders” have gone to the biz and law schools that look only to their “compartmented” corporate habits to grow more corporate culture. Same “leaders” install dicatators abroad, and arrange wars, wherever market strategies cannot prevail with mere advertising alone. All other schools follow, at least in the U.S., where ed sec Arne Duncan is committed to “instrumentalism” all the possible ways to track, measure, count, grade, and further reduce all humanity to numbers. It’s not just the obvious greedheads and war-mongers who are are guilty, but millions of teachers going compliantly down the same road.

Sorry for the Ladkhs, and all others of traditional cultures who pay the price for consumerism’s cynical recklessness and human bankruptcy.