[TheForge] Fw: Can't compete w/ this

[bamablacksmith at comcast.net]

If you want to see a visual example of this, take a look here...

http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php

a rather startling perspective...

mike

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net>
>  I don't know if this is 
> result of manipulation (likely) or the result of the times in which we 
> live (read: 7 billion people consuming resources at ever rising per 
> capita rates).  We've eaten up a lot of this world and are showing no 
> signs of letting up.  This has been intentionally crafted over many 
> decades.  The economy as it is structured almost requires it.  Growth = 
> life... at least in theory, and I suppose in reality as well.  IF it 
> stops growing, we are all in a lot of trouble.  We haven't had a 
> depression since 1929, but we have had stagflation and that is plenty 
> bad enough.  Some economists are saying we are heading for another round 
> of it next year.  That is really bad news for all of us.  Think things 
> are tough now?


> 	Indeed.  But we also need to consider population. This is something I 
> have no answer for.  People don't want to stop making more... nature of 
> the animal - yet the planet gets not appreciably larger day by day and 
> the resources are being consumed.  It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to 
> figure out where things are heading, all the wonders of modern 
> technology notwithstanding.  But abandoning the mindset of the 
> bottomless consumer would perhaps be a good start.