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Many of you guys out there heard and some even saw the movie “Titanic” about a big luxury cruise liner was crashed carrying all the rich and poor passengers wth her.
This is how the First World living aspirations would drive us straight into if we do not pull back and think about how to allocate our limited resources more wisely.
There’s a fallacy out there due to economic and political concerns that the First World governments unwillingness to admit that the third world huge populace impossible path to arrive and maintain First World standard of living.
So it would seem that the problems seem to be make more complicated that developing nations like south korea,Singapore ,hong kong and taiwan have already succeeded in reaching the goal.
Many more countries would come on board in the near future and this would be less of a problem provided our planet has never ending supply of fossil energy and other natural resources to feed this insatiable growth of ours.
We can’t stop countries to arrive at the so called first class seats of the ship and it would be hypocritical to demand they stop growing while developed nations do not.. while we continue to trumpet free market would lead to a better life for the masses.
Even if third world populace cease to exist, current first world nations would find it’s not possible to maintain it’s present course of life by depleting it own resources as well as imported from third world countries without the steady rate of replacement.

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I’ve found out the main culprits hindering the recovery of our environments and the better usage of our current energy supplies are global capitalism headed by faceless corporations worldwide who’s only objective is the bottomline.
There may be another way of looking how we run our economy in light of the fossil energy decline in the future.One of which is called the Gift Economy.

Gift economy can be also called a sharing economy where goods and services are given without any form of agreements of immediate or future returns.This can only happen in a society that placed high values in honour, loyalty and gratitude, somethings that’s sadly not predominant in our modern societies.Imagine a world with no money and wage labour.
People are motivated to give by social status or pleasures of giving.

Take farming for example. Producers would see no advantage in overusing their land. Instead they would seek to conserve their agricultural and environmental resources; to ensure their ability to live well in the future and to continue to be able to gain status by giving farm produce to others. In a capitalist economy it makes sense for entrepreneurs to market anything that can be sold, regardless of the effect on the environment. It also makes sense for consumers to purchase these goods, since they are already tied into a life of forced labour. These factors cause overproduction and overuse of land and other resources. In a gift economy people’s efforts in production would be tempered by the desire to enjoy a leisured existence and a beautiful and healthy environment.

Creativity and options, which now only find an outlet in leisure, would be here turned to creating a productive process which was also environmentally benign. In terms of farming, a sustainable agriculture based on polycultures is the ideal complement to such an economic system. Creating and harvesting a stable polyculture is an enjoyable appreciation of the bounties of nature as well as a sustainable mode of agricultural production.
To me, this is really a chicken or egg issue, which will come first, consumer or producer?

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Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable.For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to a different view.the characteristics human trait is not awareness but conformity..other animals fight for territory or food, but uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their beliefs.
The reason is that beliefs guide behavior , which has evolutionary importance among human beings.But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction.
We are stubborn ,self destructive conformists.Any other views of our species is just self delusion.By Michael Crichton

I’ve to agree to some extent that our human unwillingness to change cited by Mr Crichton
will lead us to a major catastrophe in light of our lack of energy supply in the near future.
Though I’m a cautious optimist that we will not go the way of dinosaurs given our shorter history and ingeniuty of men, mass dieoff is  something that’s  a possible scenerio too.

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