Here's a link to a recent Ronald Rovers blog – The Growth Syndrome: a pyramid game. In this he addresses issues of economic growth and the planet's ability to cope with that growth (and much more). This is how it begins:
Richard Attenborough summarized it as follows: ”Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.” The addiction to profit and money making by economists has simularities with religion fanatics. They are both afraid of the here and now, to live the life. With one difference: the one tries to escape reality by exorbitant money making, and neglect the physical borders of the system, and the other, usually less wealthy, by adoring a life after, this way also neglecting the here and now. The one supporting the other: the less wealthy, the underclass, accepts faith, that reward comes after life, the other forgets about life, while busy exploiting that belief.
However, its the planet that is the given reality, nothing else. In the triple bottom line, known as ‘people planet profit‘, people and profit are only added since both, people and profiteers are afraid to be confronted with the limits of the other, the planet. They are looking for escapes, to avoid living up to the planets potential, and add profit (-economy) to feel they have the idea that there is something to decide, that there are several ways out. But there ain’t. The economy has no relation whatsoever with the physical process in time: Everything depletes, increases entropy, and the only influence/option man has, is to speed it up or to slow it down. But in the belief that reward is only after life. And economy so far has proved to speed it up. I am sorry but there is no other conclusion. The ‘holey trinity ‘, is a trinity of PPP , or ‘triple bottom line’, is one in which people are caught between two ‘fires’: Planet and Profit. Burned by the climate or roasted by the profiteers. As such it can be seen as creating hell on earth, which makes the wish for heaven afterwards more understandable. ...
There's much here to provoke in every sense, particularly in the current dark days.
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