The general atmosphere in my country, Denmark—and most Western Protestant-dominated countries—is denial, pretense, isolation, individualism, and a tendency to blame other individuals or groups for whatever difficulty we are facing. The blaming culture makes us less aware that what we need to be after [pursuing] is a fundamental system change in which life in all its forms has higher priority than profit. 


At a recent demonstration my speech was short: 


“We cannot eat money, we cannot drink money, we cannot breathe money. When all has turned into gold because of the never-ending greed, we will find ourselves dying—of hunger, thirst, and suffocation, and in deep loneliness, because most life will have expired. 


“So let us unite to stop the fires, to stop the exploitation of this planet and humans, and reach for each other instead.”