Posted on 04/17/2008 7:35:32 PM PDT by Exton1
Summary:
If the limits to growth analysis of our predicament is correct we have no choice but to undertake radical changes in lifestyles, values, the geography of our settlements and especially change to a different economy.
We must move to The Simpler Way. The required alternative society must involve far lower rates of per capita resource consumption and environmental damage. This must mean materially simpler lifestyles, in highly self-sufficient and cooperative communities, within an economy that is not driven by market forces and profit and that does not grow over time.
The Simpler Way would not involve hardship or giving up modern technology. It would improve the average quality of life.
All the ideas and technologies we need already exist and are in use in many places. There is now a Global Eco-village Movement in which many small groups are developing settlements of the required kind.
(Excerpt) Read more at ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au ...
Yeah, no one has ever tried this before.
False choice.
The real improvement, would be trasitioning America from a consumer nation (read: buying stuff made in China), back to the world manufacturing and innovative powerhouse we once were.
It helps nobody, to buy cheap imports.
Except the people making them. We need to re-learn that fact.
Before we have no more money left ... to spend on imports.
ping.
Ping.
Stan: So it seems like we have enough people now. When do we start taking down the corporations?
Hippie (takes a drag on his joint): Yeah man, the corporations. Right now they’re raping the world for money!
Kyle: Yeah, so, where are they? Let’s go get ‘em.
Hippie: Right now we’re proving we don’t need corporations. We don’t need money. This can become a commune where everyone just helps each other.
Hippie: Yeah, we’ll have one guy who like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for other people’s safety.
Stan: You mean like a baker and a cop?
Hippie: No no, can’t you imagine a place where people live together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for their services?
Kyle: Yeah, it’s called a town.
Just try it, we have seen what happened in the past.
The hippy communes have not been gone that many years so their historical failures should still be fresh.
Self sufficiency is not communal living as a co-op.
Self sufficiency is an individual effort. many succeed. Many fail. Such is life.
These problems cannot be solved without fundamental change, because they are directly caused by our present socio-economic system.
We're all gonna DIE!
Aside from genocide, mass starvation, shortages in food, housing, and goods what could go wrong?
The Simpler Way would not involve hardship or giving up modern technology. It would improve the average quality of life.
Why do so many people believe in the "free lunch"?
Is it a cultural thing (game shows and infomercials on TV, Willy Wonka in the movies, and multimillion dollar tort settlements)?
Or is it just a lack of basic economics/consumer education in the schools?
NO, his wife wrote it.
I just hate reading this crap before bedtime. Now I’ll have to stay up watching the Sci-Fi channel just to get the scary crap out of my head.
There is no “historical failure” in the .edu/ mindset. There is only the need to “do it right this time” using the “enlightened” approach.
Morons. Dark ages, here we come.
Last Day, Capricorn 15s, year of the city 2274, Carousel begins.
The “let’s try it approach” for every man made catastrophe seems to be Socialism. Seen it. Don’t need the t-shirt. Or the shackles.
Why not embrace reform-nazism? < /sarc >
It’s a lack of common sense.
You know, I fear that this person may one day get his wish. The more I talk to people about economics, the more it seems that socialism is becoming not only accepted, but also desired.
You won’t believe what people have said to me regarding money, private property and the like. It’s astounding...and infuriating as well.
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