Unless there's economic growth, we're not making progress
Unless the trucks rumble along the roads, we're not making progress
Unless the engines of industry are turning, we're not making progress
Unless the factories and mills belch out smoke, we're not making progress
Unless our armies are on the move, we're not making progress
Until we respect the planet, we won't progress.
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Scale of industrial pollution is the essential problem
I don't think that there is necessarily anything inherently wrong with human industrial activity. Although a great deal of output from humankind's industrial processes add little to our quality of life a good many of the produced artefacts do.
If the scale of human industrial activity were a lot smaller and its output more rationally decided upon than it is at present, then I believe it should be possible for industrial processes to provide all people with artefacts which would allow them to live fulfilling and modestly prosperous lives and without putting our planetary life support system at risk.
What is putting our planet at grave risk is:
If we were able to rectify all these problems, which would only be possible if power were taken away from the elites and returned to the people by true and effective democracy, then I think it would be possible to change our industrial system to make it sustainable.
The justice of Direct Democracy - a Swiss model...
Thanks James for your considered input of suggestions.
On your advocacy of 'effective democracy' which I support, I invite you and your readers to listen to the ABC Radio 'Rear Vision' documentary programme on today on Direct Democracy in Switzerland.
'In Switzerland, voters not only elect the government they also directly vote on policy issues and legislation passed by the parliament. What can we learn from Switzerland?'
Direct Democracy in Switzerland
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