More thoughts on our lack of growth economy

Other things to note is to consider what kind of society we want to have if our economy cannot grow or grows at a really low rate.

Ideally, we would have a society ready for slower growth through the following:

Peak Oil issues - Decreasing energy footprints

* Fuel efficient cars so we use less fuel overall

• Not using cars (i.e. bicycling) would decrease the energy footprint further

* Designing communities to use less energy in general

• includes urban planning with walking in mind
• includes mass transportation schemes
• Does not have to be High Speed rail
• Regular trains will do
• less sprawl in general 

* Eating locally - this should eliminate a lot of health issues, especially diabetes and others if more vegetables/ fruits were consumed.

• Less processed foods, which cause disease
• more fruits/vegetalbles with a lot less meat

*  Use more energy efficient items at home (Major appliances, especially)


More importantly, we have to figure out what to value in our society and enforce it.

Let's start with a few items:

* Honesty, integrity.
* Rule of Law (updated for modern times to include things like abortion, gay marriage, etc)
* Relationships built on trust and substance.
* Society is built on emotional maturity, not immaturity

• should allow for discussion free of ad-hominem attacks, and such
• more openminded broadened discussion

* distribution of wealth is FAIRER (gap between have/havenots should not be too large).


We cannot let the amoral, sociopathic (or confused and craven) leadership hijack our people power for their own selfish ends.