Insects Are in Serious Trouble
I think nothing will change as long as <i>economic growth</i> is understood as <i>economic Good</i>.<p>Current economy can't work if there's no economic growth.<p>Banks are among the biggest culprits. If banks lend money at a 5% interest rate, their customers must grow their businesses by 5%.<p>A new, sustainable economy is needed. I think about it each time I see the Race for the Galaxy card. I've seen a radical example of this among African tribes, in a documentary Africa  serries by Basil Davidson. He argued the tribe (sorry I don't remember its name) can fully sustain itself by taking things from nature around it. All their wealth is external. They possess little, but whenever they have a need for something - food, medicine, water, paint, clothes, containers(...) they go to a forest, harvest a specific plant and get it. They have recipes for everything they need.