Kicked back into touch

I’m not an economist, but the recent turmoil in global financial markets really does get my back up.  The whole thing is run for the benefit of a few people, now it’s going wrong, they seem to be walking away with huge bonuses rather than serious consequences.

We’ve been running the entire western world on a ridiculous premise for years, the idea that growth is king and that it can keep happening.  Yeah, right.

We have a limited planet, with finite resources and space, growth is ultimately limited, with no way round that.  Eventually it must end.  To pretend otherwise is to live in complete denial of the real, to allow our illusions and wishful thinking to rule, something the Buddha and Lao Tzu warned about millennia ago.

We need to focus on finding a sustainable way of living, one that won’t wreck the planet and our lives.