Jostein Øksne wrote: > Malcolm Smith wrote: >> [...] >> What we >> all need to do is agree there is a problem and how best to resolve it for >> everyone; although I suspect the 'facts' issued by governments helps to >> distract the various populations and allow themselves and big business >> largely get on with doing what it has always done, with mere lip service to >> the big issue. > > The Big Issue is really the big gap in logic between: > 1. granting all the world the same level of living standard as the > "first world" countries, and > 2. continuing the economic growth in the "first world" countries > > An economic model to accomodate both does not exist. > > Jostein >
Actually one does. However it requires that we not look at earth's resources as the only ones available to us but rather to look to the entire solar system. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. It's raining soup out there and we're stuck in our tent. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
