If economies were run by sane grown-ups, instead of political hacks only interested in retaining their own power, lifestyle, and infantile fantasties, we could talk about such things as a steady state economy, or even how to contain human population growth, which is at the core of the planet's problems. At this point, however--and we've been here many times before--the only thing that's going to save us, ironically, is a steady state of disasters. No amount of "green technology" will make a significant change in direction. Humans have always been saved by nature, not the other way around.
-Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "dave miller" <[email protected]> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 7:41 AM Subject: [NetBehaviour] The End of Growth Perpetual economic growth is neither possible nor desirable. Growth, especially in wealthy nations, is already causing more problems than it solves. Recession isn't sustainable or healthy either. The positive, sustainable alternative is a steady state economy. http://steadystate.org/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
