‘The Limits to Growth’
Club of Rome 1973
More than 50 years ago, the Club of Rome warned that economic growth will destroy our planet.
But global economic growth is still increasing every year by an amount that corresponds to more than the total economic output of Germany.
It is like a plague of locusts that eats everything and shits all over the place, and this ‘shit’ includes plastic waste and greenhouse gases.
All we do today is try to stop the locusts from shitting.
Shouldn’t we be trying to get rid of the plague instead?
Please remember that the economy also uses the arms trade and wars to continue to grow!
The real reason for economic growth
The real reason is that economic growth and profits make the rich richer and richer. Why do politicians always say that without growth everything will collapse?
We know very well that it is the other way around. Never-ending economic growth will cause everything to collapse.
Money and profit are therefore to blame for economic growth, and money is also the cause of the inequality between rich and poor and between the global South and North.
Ending economic growth and liberating the economy
If we liberate the economy from the constraints of money, then growth will stop and the economy will only be there for us and no longer for profit.
Money only enters the economy through paid work. All materials and energy are free because we receive everything as a gift from the earth and the sun.
If everyone worked voluntarily, goods would no longer cost anything and we would not need wages at all. We could simply take what we need for a good and happy life. No one would be excluded anymore.
For a happy coexistence of humanity
This would mean that we give each other our work. Giving and receiving gifts makes us much happier than being enslaved for money.
There would no longer be any economic growth and we would simply switch from the gross domestic product to the gross national happiness.
Nothing would have to be prepared for this; we would just have to decide to work voluntarily worldwide from a certain day on. Just as many people already do at home and as is common throughout civil society.
If we communicate this idea to everyone, we will succeed in freeing our planet from the scourge of growth and we will then live in a happy future.
This could happen as early as 2025!
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