Nature was kind today ...
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Today began at Sawgrass Lake Park and a lot of time was spent appreciating the nearly-full moon decorating the blue sky and then it was time to visit the water where the birds were abundant, diverse and beautiful.
Did you listen to all of the economic happy talk over the last several days? Don't believe it. Let's put an end to gullibility. When the Dow was 14,000 it meant nothing, when the Dow dropping to the 6,000s it meant nothing, and now that the Dow is again over 9,000 it still means nothing.
The economy doesn't mean anything at all. The economy is, always has been, and always shall be a lie.
Humankind's problems are bigger than the economy. Consider the following warning contained in New Scientist magazine:
Consumerism is 'eating the future'
Although we like to think of ourselves as civilised thinkers, we're subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion. This is an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.
The problem with that, according to Rees and Hern, is that it fails to recognise that the physical resources to fuel this growth are finite. "We're still driven by growing and expanding, so we will use up all the oil, we will use up all the coal, and we will keep going till we fill the Petri dish and pollute ourselves out of existence," he says.
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In other words: Humankind is on a direct path to extinction.
There is also another message: The resources which make technological civilization possible are being consumed at an ever-accelerating pace. Since these resources are finite they are subject to depletion and exhaustion. Therefore technological civilization cannot survive.
One more warning: Pollution is quickly transforming a living, hospitable planet into a festering sewer of toxins and transforming the Earth into a hellishly inhospitable place for humankind.
So don't believe all of the economic happy-talk. The economists were lying before the bubble economy collapsed, the economists were lying as the collapse occurred, and these same economists continue to lie today.
Capitalism is a ponzi scheme. This is easily enough demonstrated by the imperative for perpetual economic and population growth. The laws of Nature forbid perpetual growth and the laws of biology forbid perpetual population growth.
Capitalism is running out of time. Capitalism is dead.
It is a good thing, too, though extremely painful for Americans. Best to let dying things die rather than kill the planet in a vain attempt to prolong a planet-destroying economic system.
Stop shopping. If you love your children, stop shopping. If you care about humankind's future, stop shopping.
David Mathews
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