David Morris - ‘Free Trade’:The Great Destroyer

Economists like to talk about externalities.

The costs of job dislocalisation, rising family violence, community breakdown, environmental damage, and cultural collapse are all considered ‘external’.

 

External to what, one might ask ?

 

This weeks Green Thought is taken from ‘Free Trade’:The Great Destroyer by Morris D.(1996), in Mander J. & Goldsmith E. (eds.)(1996) ‘The Case against the Global Economy and for a turn towards the Local’.

 

Article:http://www.converge.org.nz/pirm/free.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Mander

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Goldsmith

Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

"Efficiency and risk reduction in the service of humanity, the inner motivations of technological change, must be rethought from an ecosystem perspective."

This weeks Green Thought comes from the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ by Stan Rowe.

 

http://econet.ca/sk_enviro_champions/rowe.html

http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/aboutauthors.html

President Lyndon B. Johnson

"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."

        -President Lyndon B. Johnson  (Upon signing of the Wilderness Act, 1964)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson

 

Fifty years ago, on September 3, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System and setting aside 9.1 million acres of wild lands for the use and enjoyment of the American people.

Damon L. Hoppe

“We’re only a fag, a pint and a football match away from revolution”.

Damon L. Hoppe.

A special Birthday Green Thought in honour of Damon's birthday.

David J C McKays - Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air

"If everyone does a little, we’ll achieve only a little."

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from Chief Scientific Advisor of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, David J C  McKays  2009 free online book  Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air. http://www.withouthotair.com/

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._C._MacKay

 

Anon. qouted by Hugo Chavez - UN Climate Change Talks

" If the climate was a bank, they (the US) would already have saved it."

This weeks Green Thought was a slogan on a protesters banner at the U.N. Climate Change Talks in December 2009 in Copenhagen. The words were later repeated before the delegates at the actual conference by the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez