Please note,
In public view, everyone seems to have it wrong! The left and the right
now seem to agree that jobs are the only acceptable way to dole out
money to the masses. Yet, when we create nearly full employment our
powerful technology and out large supply of workers will always waste
too far too many resources to be a sustainable mode of operation. On TV
there is no confict between expanding the economy to make jobs and
contracting the economy to conserve resources.
Whether our goal is to preserve the present pecking order or to help
improve the lives of the poor, we must have a sustainable system for
anything to really matter to anyone. Excess growth is the cause of our
high consumption, and high consumption is the reason our economic system
is not sustainable. Growth is the common problem of all classes!
True conservation cuts consumption and that cuts production and that
cuts real paying jobs and profits. No one supports a sustainable
economy. Without true conservation we can continue to squander scarce
resources to exercise all our surplus labor. Without conservation we
can have our giant SUV. That is our plan, left or right. Is is
Zero-Vision. I doubt that pro-growth positions should be called
radical, or different, or anything other than conventional parrot talk,
even when it is a socialist talking.
A stable population could use a general increase in durability to cut
its consumption to sustainable levels while maintaining high living
standards. Consumption is not use. Use is not consumption.
Barry Brooks
