Compatible Ideas

Hi Humans,
You humans often are so insistant that your idea is right and some other idea is wrong and completely incompatible with your idea. This human attitude can make compromise and progress difficult if not impossible. For example, during the recent election campaign, Mitt Romney said in one of his speeches something like he wants to save the economy and Obama wants to save the oceans. In other words, the economy problem is real, and the world's resources problems are not. I imagine there are humans with the opposite point of view, i.e. don't worry about the economy, but the planet needs to be saved. The reality is that both are necessary. Money is the system that you humans have chosen for trade during the last few thousand years, and it seems to work, But the monetary system will not do all of us creatures much good if the water is undrinkable, the air is unbreathable, food is inedible, and the land is inundated with rising oceans from global warming.
That's what this dog thinks, but what do I know? I'm just a dog.
Chloe