ShamanNov 24, 2024
Reading "The Lost Bird Project" and realizing that building monuments to extinct birds might seem like a great idea, however, without humankind changing their #WarOnNature and #PerpetualGrowth ideology it is simply a pathetic effort to try telling ourselves that we have learned from our crimes against our environment. Yet without even recognizing what has been lost how can we ever live up to our true potential of building a sustainable future.
Passage from the paragraph about the once so plentiful, iconic, and truly American bird our forefathers hunted to extinction and didn't seem to care much about:
Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJan 22, 2022

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At one point in the paper they put 'educated' in inverted commas, stating how the #education systems are failing against mythical #economicNarratives like 'growth can continue forever if it's in #serviceIndustries', or '#technology can save us'.

They're right, #perpetualGrowth itself is delusional, and its great to see them specifically target the 3.5% number #Keynesianism clings to. It doesn't delve into the #moneyPump specifically, which is unfortunate.

Do read the (15min read) paper.

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersJan 27, 2021

@sektor
The only thing that incentivises #perpetualGrowth is debt-based #FiatCurrencies and #stockMarketing.

Look into fractional reserve banking to see real #exponentialGrowth.

Gold and #bitcoin are deflationary and wouldn't allow the kinds of debt growth and global destruction we've seen over 50 years.

Also bitcoin mining is designed to respond dynamically to the amount of energy available. If less energy is out there then the difficulty of mining will decrease.

@actualsteerpike @be

Dick Smiths Fair Go SupportersOct 16, 2020

@alex
Similar boat, we had people vilify us for wanting to have a sensible amount of #immigration into #Australia. Rather than the extreme 300-450 thousand per annum.

Here people don't come after you and attack you, they just completely ignore you. Its the polite way.

Here if you are not down with the #ponziScheme - not attending the seminars that #indoctrinate you with delusions of 7% #perpetualGrowth in #housePrices from #crazyRichAsians, not into #highrise #slums - you must have lepracy. ✌