Posted on 07/31/2009 7:39:57 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama’s Science Adviser Called for ‘Zero Economic Growth’ Friday, July 31, 2009 By Christopher Neefus
(CNSNews.com) – At a time when it was popular among environmentalists to talk about capping pollutants, John Holdren was writing about placing “caps” on the U.S. economy itself--and working toward “zero economic growth.”
Holdren, who is now President Obama’s top adviser on science and technology policy, wrote in the 1970s that it would be “entirely logical” to cap the Gross National Product--the total productivity of the American economy.
“It is by now abundantly clear that the GNP cannot grow forever. Why should it?” Holdren asked in a 1977 college science textbook he co-wrote with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, titled “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.”
“Why should we not strive for zero economic growth (ZEG) as well as zero population growth?”
The pertinent chapter, “Changing American Institutions,” discusses what the authors perceived as problems in America’s social mores, government, and economic system, which they say makes it “the leader in humanity’s reckless exploitation of Earth.”
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That would be a vast improvement over Obama’s economy.
What are the chances of getting Environmentalism listed as psychiatric disorder?
By capping the economy, and growing the government, there is only one merging point: 100% control by government of the economy (albeit in an asymptotic way)
I’ve thought of cap-and-trade as a direct tax on productivity. This guy makes me think so all the more.
LOL, I was just about to post the same thing. Zero economic growth is up from what Obama is currently doing to the economy. Even the liberals I work with are starting to turn on Obama and they are starting to see all the predictions I had made about him come true.
Directive 10-289.
Would that exclude muslims who are currently reproducing like rabbits?
These are the screwballs who are now in power.
God help us.
HUMMMM...
Does this fit Zero?
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Diagnostic Features:
Social Phobia is a condition characterized by a marked and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur. Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response. Although adolescents and adults with this disorder recognize that their fear is excessive or unreasonable, this may not be the case in children. Most often, the social or performance situation is avoided, although it is sometimes endured with dread. In individuals younger than 18, symptoms must have persisted for at least 6 months before is disorder is diagnosed. This diagnosis should not be given if the fear is reasonable given the context of the stimuli (e.g., fear of being called on in class when unprepared). The disturbance must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. This disorder is not due to a medical condition, medication, or abused substance. It is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., Panic Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, or Schizoid Personality Disorder).
Complications:
Individuals with this disorder may develop hypersensitivity to criticism, negative evaluation, or rejection. They often have difficulty being assertive; and have a low self-esteem or have feelings of inferiority. They often fear indirect evaluation by others, such as taking a test. They may have poor social skills (e.g., poor eye contact) or observable signs of anxiety (e.g., cold clammy hands, tremors, shaky voice). They may underachieve at school due to test anxiety or avoidance of classroom participation. They may underachieve at work because of anxiety during, or avoidance of, speaking in groups, in public, or to authority figures and colleagues.
FOOOLS. Zero growth as a target? Have they thought about their children OR anything about the future?
And these are his advisers?
We are Screwed, soooo screwed.
Whack jobs working for a supreme whack job. God save us.
“That would be a vast improvement over Obama’s economy.”
Witty. I detect that right wingers have reacquired their ability to ridicule.
I know that I have been very morose and angry up until recently. However, lately, I find that the Kenyan has stimulated a huge growth in pointed zingers. So, he’s not all bad.
“It is by now abundantly clear that the GNP cannot grow forever. Why should it?” Holdren asked in a 1977 college science textbook he co-wrote with Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, titled “Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.”
The pertinent chapter, “Changing American Institutions,” discusses what the authors perceived as problems in America’s social mores, government, and economic system, which they say makes it “the leader in humanity’s reckless exploitation of Earth.”
The Rand Institute should have sued this moron for plagiarism! In "Atlas Shrugged," the government decides (and Jim Taggart agrees) that the way to stabilize the economy (and society) is to place limits on production and consumption, requiring everyone to purchase what they did the previous year, and disallowing the invention or improvement of any goods or services, and limiting the production of those goods to the production levels of the previous year. This includes books and music as well!
Mark
I am seeing the same as you with liberals I know. They are all jumping off the sinking ship.
***Obama’s Science Adviser Called for ‘Zero Economic Growth’***
Anyone remember these blasts from the past about 1970?
ZPG (Zero Popultion Growth)
ZERO DEFECTS!
Now we got ZEG!
Shades of “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
That's why one of 0bama's nicknames is ZERO.
In his 1843 report to Congress, the then commissioner of the Patent Office, Henry L. Ellsworth, included the following comment: "The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end."Imagine if they listened to Henry way back when.
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