Open Future NZ "Trying to Understand Economic Reality"

Economics - Let's Get Real Here

Open_Future
  You cannot in a finite world double resource use every 35 years, indefinitely.  Something will break.  

Are we in or entering a depression?



Deep Roots
Strong roots grow a good tree

A series of 12 essays written in February 2009 by John Stephen Veitch

Depression 2009? Personal Organisation
Your Retirement Democracy of Ideas
The Economics of Limits The Asset Base
Green Business Thinking Power Politics
Global Warming Steady State Economics
Community Organisation Worldwide Perspective
Take a look at the root of that tree.  Can it grow twice as big in the next 35 years?  Why is that not possible?  Why are there hundreds of little trees in the area nearby that will NEVER grow to maturity?  Essentially the same rules apply to every growth process.  
Some of my earlier thoughts on economics (April 2007) are at Adapt to Experience, here.