Sustained forests; sustained profits
Root Problems of Society
Root problems are the unbroken beliefs...
- that Growth Is good;
- that Greed Is good (Adam Smith, Pareto, Ricardo et al. offer the ultimateanswers for everything. The so-called "free market place" is the superior form of societal organisation, even superior to social democracy.);
- that technology will solve all environmental problems;
- that technological efficiency can be increased limitless;
- that we have time to spare (that the disasters are not immanent, will not hit us or our children or grandchildren);
- that we have sufficient resources that can be wasted on motorised traffic and a multitude of other so-called economic activities;
- that speed and geographical mobility are good and necessary;
- that the public will not accept anything else than the current ways of life (that we cannot go back to historical structures);
- that so-called "free trade" is good and necessary (that localised economies are not possible);
- that the "market" will be able to deal with environmental problems (that we can meanwhile let the "market" continue to deplete our planet from its last resources (minerals, arable land, forests, clean air, water, normal climate: the lot))(Eric, 1999)
- that we are earning our livings and that human labor is the source of wealth. Labor mostly sets prices, but labor is not the source of wealth. Resources and inheritance are the sources of wealth. Labor is merely a tool for harvesting resources, soon to be mostly machine labor. Prices are a tool for dividing human labor. (Barry Brooks 1999)
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