The economists say, if you clear cut the forest take the money and put it in the bank you could make six or seven percent, if you clear cut the forest and put it into Malaysia or Papua New Guinea you could make 30 or 40 percent! So who cares whether you keep the forest, cut it down, put the money somewhere else. When those forests are gone, put it in fish, when the fish are gone, put it in computers. Money doesnt stand for anything, and now money is growing faster than the real world. Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics us so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. If you take an introductory course in economics, the professor in the first lecture will show a slide of the economy, and it looks very impressive, raw materials, productions, manufactures, whole sale, retails, with arrows going back and forth. And they try to impress you because they think that they know damn well, economics is not a science, but theyre trying to fool us into thinking that its a real science, its not. Economics is a set of values that they then try to use mathematical equations and all that stuff to pretend that is a science. But if you ask the economist, In that equation, where do you put the ozone layer? Where do you put the deep underground aquifers of fossil water? Where do you put top soil, or biodiversity? Their answer is oh those are externalities! But then you might as well be on Mars. That economy is not based in anything like the real world. Its life, the Web of life, that filters water in the hydrologic cycle, its microorganisms in the soil that create the soil that we can grow our food in. Nature performs all kinds of services, insects fertilize all of the flowering plants, these services are vital to the health of the planet. Economists call these externalities... thats NUTS!!!!! -David Suzuki
Posted on: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:29:24 +0000
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