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Open any financial magazine, corporate brochure or government document to do with policy or future planning and they all have one core message namely GROWTH. It is all about GROWING the economy, GROWING production, GROWING infrastructure and a load more of GROWING that needs to be done all around!
It all looks and sounds great when put into million Dollar marketing packages and presented to the public in gold plated letters and in news bulletins on prime time news, but have you ever asked yourself where we are headed with all this GROWING? The inevitable answer is either into a deeper pit of despair with more mouths, requiring more GROWING of food crops to support their ever GROWING needs that’s where!
Economic GROWTH for the sake of economic GROWTH is, to put it mildly, unsustainable. What we need is maintenance or reduction. Reduction in how much we consume and a gradual reduction in the global population because you have to be especially ignorant or stupid if you think roads and buildings all over the planet is a healthy way of GROWING.
Just today I saw an IBM Smart Growth initiative with the following lines:
“If someone could have observed the Earth from space two centuries ago, he or she would have seen the light from just two concentrations of a million or more people—London and Beijing. Today, there are 450 such shining cities—and they are the economic, governmental, cultural and technological power plants of a global urban age. Our future depends on keeping them running and growing brightly.”
The last thing this planet or humanity needs is to keep cities GROWING!
The bonus however is that IBM is about technological adaptation and that is where I personally would like to see humanity go. I personally believe if we can stay where we are now or perhaps lower our total number of people on the planet naturally through education and then focus our collective energy and intellect on free or cheaper energy, cleaner living and decreasing our footprint on the environment it would be fantastic. I have many ideas, for one, we should find a way of lifting our roads off the ground so that wildlife can move freely beneath our travel ways. We have become so used to living in cities that we forget there is wildlife all around us, trying to use the same space. It is terrible that we don’t give a thought to the monstrous killing machines we have cutting up the continents in the form of highways. Sometimes not even birds can escape getting killed. There is no reason we cannot allow most if it back in. All we need is a better way of living and that is where the only GROWTH we really need, needs to happen namely in clean and earth friendly technology.
The age of better and more responsible living is what we should aim for, not the age of some more GROWING!
It all looks and sounds great when put into million Dollar marketing packages and presented to the public in gold plated letters and in news bulletins on prime time news, but have you ever asked yourself where we are headed with all this GROWING? The inevitable answer is either into a deeper pit of despair with more mouths, requiring more GROWING of food crops to support their ever GROWING needs that’s where!
Economic GROWTH for the sake of economic GROWTH is, to put it mildly, unsustainable. What we need is maintenance or reduction. Reduction in how much we consume and a gradual reduction in the global population because you have to be especially ignorant or stupid if you think roads and buildings all over the planet is a healthy way of GROWING.
Just today I saw an IBM Smart Growth initiative with the following lines:
“If someone could have observed the Earth from space two centuries ago, he or she would have seen the light from just two concentrations of a million or more people—London and Beijing. Today, there are 450 such shining cities—and they are the economic, governmental, cultural and technological power plants of a global urban age. Our future depends on keeping them running and growing brightly.”
The last thing this planet or humanity needs is to keep cities GROWING!
The bonus however is that IBM is about technological adaptation and that is where I personally would like to see humanity go. I personally believe if we can stay where we are now or perhaps lower our total number of people on the planet naturally through education and then focus our collective energy and intellect on free or cheaper energy, cleaner living and decreasing our footprint on the environment it would be fantastic. I have many ideas, for one, we should find a way of lifting our roads off the ground so that wildlife can move freely beneath our travel ways. We have become so used to living in cities that we forget there is wildlife all around us, trying to use the same space. It is terrible that we don’t give a thought to the monstrous killing machines we have cutting up the continents in the form of highways. Sometimes not even birds can escape getting killed. There is no reason we cannot allow most if it back in. All we need is a better way of living and that is where the only GROWTH we really need, needs to happen namely in clean and earth friendly technology.
The age of better and more responsible living is what we should aim for, not the age of some more GROWING!