imagine this: we are living in a global community, a community that mad for growth, then suddenly someone said that we can't tolerate another grow..?
Herman Daly is a post world bank economist, whom considered 'heretics' for not believe in growth. if he is a heretic, then we must be day-dreaming right now. the basis for another growth was just hasn't there anymore. he just got the simple point we are all forgetting in a chase for growth. the wealth of this planet has also the ones that support us to live. we can't have both of them at the same time. we have to set our limit of wealth.
i always posed the problem of today's economy with a simple question: are we prepare to live more simple? you can't expect the earth would support six billion all in a wealth state of common americans today. the resource just wasn't limitless.
but are we ready to face the consequences?
the denial of this state would not work either. see how Daly's thinking about current economic crisis. would it be the first sign of nations' collapses?
i think we will if we continue on denying:)
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