Standing Rock was an example of regulatory capture, when your whole system is controlled by corporations - Winona LaDuke

Today, on a worldwide scale, we remain in the same situation as one hundred years ago, only with less land and fewer people.

The challenge at the cusp of the millennium is to transform human laws to match natural laws, not vice versa. And to correspondingly transform wasteful production and voracious consumption. America and industrial society must move from a society based on conquest to one steeped in the practice of survival. In order to do that, we must close the circle. The linear nature of industrial production itself, in which labor and technology turn natural wealth into consumer products and wastes, must be transformed into a cyclical system.

Public policy is lagging behind our ability to destroy ourselves.