America’s economic system seems to be falling apart. And frankly I am not sure it is such a bad thing. We have to ask ourselves do we keep the current system and lose the planet, or do we keep the planet, and loose the current system?
What do you think?
Tough question, Naib…if you’re stupid!
Still I didn’t like Earth anyway ;-)
What do economists see as the size, shape and make-up of Earth?
It appears as if the family of humanity lives in a relatively small, evidently finite and noticeably frangible planetary home. If Earth is bounded in space-time; if Earth’s limited resources are being recklessly dissipated; and if Earth’s environs are being irreversibly degraded by relentless pollution, can an adequate, reality-oriented case be made by economists for the sustainability of the colossal scale and fully expected, seemingly endless growth of the artificially designed, manmade global economy that is rampantly overspreading our planetary home?
Do economists still believe that the Earth is flat, that Earth is like a mother’s teat at which the human species can perpetually suckle, or that the planet we inhabit is a cornucopia?
If so, please explain.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilitysoutheast.org/index.php