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[tom <tom AT honeychrome.com>]

<<Maybe someone can send the current folks running for prez a copy of  
the
book.  The latest this morning was a promise of $1.5 Billion a year for
encouraging "green" cars.  The folks pushing these electric cars  
never cease
to amaze me.  Ah, what are they going to do with all the used  
batteries AND
we really need a bigger draw on the electric producing capacity of this
country.  Plus a promise of several hundred million for Michigan car
manufacturers.

Why don't they just change the name of the country to Chinaca and be  
done
with it!

Lynda>>


Its a tough spot we're in, no doubt.  The current paradigm of  
perpetual growth is embedded in nearly everything we do- remove the  
growth and the structures that mostly-western human culture has  
erected over the last several hundred years collapse, and we can't  
expect the master's tools to dismantle the master's house.  The only  
recourse I see on a personal level is to remove myself as much as  
possible from the broader growth-obsessed economy, which neatly goes  
hand in hand with the ethic of self-reliance and self-sufficiency of  
homesteading.  Change is going to have to come from the bottom up on  
this one- those at the top have done very well under this system and  
see little reason, and have little incentive, to change things beyond  
putting on a shiny coat of 'green' paint.  "Get rich while saving the  
world!"  Uh huh.

Another interesting read:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/3941

And a pretty compelling critique of perpetual 'growth':

http://globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/461

(click on 'stream' to see the video of the lecture)