As the global financial system sinks, as every single person I know in the know about ecology and peak oil and sustainability has been correctly predicting for a long time...
Krugman writes about The Wrong Worries in the New York Times (see link).
However, he also has the wrong worries.... as he implies that there is a way back to jobs and 'growth' and business-as-usual.
There simply isn't. Not in the framework, the worldview, nor according to the priorities or ideas of this 'mainstream' thinking; this corporate agenda, capitalist nonsense.
Capitalism has become 'non sense' because it does not observe the world, the Earth as a whole system, and all of its wholeness.
If the world's non-renewable resources, its health, human population numbers, biodiversity and so on are all strained way beyond their limits; if we are living beyond the world's carrying capacity; if we are, in a word, living 'unsustainably', then, logically, inextricably, this situation is... unsustainable. It can't go on. The game is up.
When will the mainstream get it?
Krugman hasn't at all hit on the bigger picture. He too believes that some miraculous recovery can occur if Obama and Co just get it right and do the right thing.
Well perhaps. But it better involve:
- Developing the Green Economy
- Supporting the Local, Ecological, Sustainable, Creative, Supportive, Spiritual...
- Building Community Resilience
- Celebrating our Shared Human Values (across religions, cultures and borders)
Martin (John's son)
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