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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 15, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Roy Morgan 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.

I've always been nonplussed at people in near perfect small towns that  
pushed for growth. Nothing like a zealous Chamber of Commerce to ruin  
a perfectly fine place to live. I have read that growth is necessary,  
that only primitive tribes know how to live sustainably without  
growing their numbers or their hunting grounds. Apparently they have  
not learned the immense rewards of progress. Someone needs to show  
them how better weapons could kill more animals, how tractors could  
till more land. Then they could raise larger families and build bigger  
huts, then proper houses. Why, they need a proper financial system.  
They just don't know what they're missing.