Everyone agrees that our economic crisis is in large measure anthropogenic, that is, due to human behavior, living larger than we could afford, taking more than we could return, wanting more than is either reasonable or fair to expect. That is, we loaned more than was just so we could reap more than we sowed; borrowed more than we could replenish with what we can earn; divvied up, spread out, and pawned off the responsibility so that no one truly could be blamed, or could even have been moved to care. Now we are paying the price. And the price is very steep. It was forced on us by these regrettable circumstances. But I can’t help imagining for a moment, what if, way before the crisis, independent of any impending crisis, say two years ago, we had taken $350… read more
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environmental lessons from economic collapse
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