On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

>        The trouble with the Van Gelder & Pibel article is that it is
> utopian.  Lots of that going around.  Gus Speth, the Dean of Yale's
> environmental school, among others, has also written about stopping growth.
>  But none, including Van Gelder & Pibel, advance a program that can be
> organized and won.  Mostly it is arm waving and appeals for being nice.  In
> Speth's case, nice people, nice corporations.  This seems to be what Henwood
> and Devine dismiss.
>


Thats a  fair criticism and one I agree with. In their defense though, I
think van Gelder et al were just trying to *start* a discussion. Provide the
big vision up front and more substantial ideas hopefully to come after
that.. Either way, they certainly didn't deserve a comparison with Andrew
Mellon.
-raghu.

-- 
"Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time."
 - Steven Wright
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