Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970919134634.009ece30@aloha.net> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 13:46:34 -1000 From: Jay Hanson <mailto:j@QMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: September Issue of DevelopNet News To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
At 05:16 PM 9/19/97 -0400, Dania Granados wrote:>Over and above the financial benefits that microenterprises can get by
>accessing improved technology they can also stand to benefit in a number
>of other ways. Improved technology can help them speed up their produc-
>tion process and save labor; increase the efficiency of the production
>process; improve product quality and, therefore, increase product price;
>and create new possibilities for local manufacturing.
The human enterprise has now exceeded the carrying capacity of planet Earth. [1] The new agenda is not to produce MORE possibilities for manufacturing, but to produce LESS.
Since humanity is now outgrown the carrying capacity of our home, we are confronted with two choices:
#1. We can drastically reduce the human impact on our life-support system our way.
#2. Nature WILL drastically reduce our impact on her systems HER WAY.
Here is another way to look at it: IF the only think that can stop economic growth is human crash and die-off, THEN economic growth WILL be stopped by human crash and die-off.
Jay
[1] http://dieoff.org/page110.htm