Peace of mind has been stolen.

A tiny class of the unimaginably wealthy is tearing at the fabric that holds the world together. They undermine the international order, strip the planet of its living systems, and accelerate climate collapse for profit. This is not innovation. It is extraction. It is the plunder of a finite world. Call it what it is: violence against Gaia.

The climate math alone is damning. Oxfam’s research shows that a single person in the richest 0.1% emits more carbon in one day than someone in the poorest half of humanity emits in an entire year. While the super-rich profit from environmental destruction, everyone else absorbs the cost in floods, fires, famine, displacement, and anxiety about the future.

It is not obscene to be wealthy. Inherited wealth, stewarded with restraint and responsibility, can even be used for genuine public good. What is obscene is rapacious greed: hoarding far beyond need, externalizing harm, and treating the planet and its people as expendable inputs.

They would like us to believe they are indispensable. They are not. Their wealth depends on our labor, our systems, our tolerance. We do not depend on their excess.

They need us. We don’t need them.