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:
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> On May 14, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Don Bowen wrote:
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>>> The current paradigm of...
>> Our entire system is built on perpetual growth. It is embedded in the
>> system of credit that funds growth.
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> 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.