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  • From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] McKibben et al, was Do you have your affairs in order?
  • Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:29:46 -0500

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> On May 14, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Don Bowen wrote:
>
>>> The current paradigm of...
>> Our entire system is built on perpetual growth. It is embedded in the
>> system of credit that funds growth.
>
> For as long as I can remember, I (we) have heard how important, nay
> essential, perpetual growth is. And for as long as I can remember,
> I've harbored a nagging suspicion that it just is not so.

In a biological system, which the earth is, perpetual growth is cancer
and kills the organism. Earth is just a really, really big organism
and therefore will take longer to kill than most. We seem to be making
every effort to get there.

Marie, still glad she's old




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