We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, February 20, 2012

Limits To Growth And Fractional Reserve Banking

Click here to access article by John Scales Avery from Counter Currents.

The author clearly understands the problems facing the capitalist world within a limited planetary system, but fails to understand that his proposed solutions are impossible under the system of capitalism. Because the author has a strong background in the physical sciences (he is associate professor in quantum chemistry at the University of Copenhagen), he can probably be forgiven for thinking that capitalism can be reformed to offer such solutions.
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