Climate Justice

"Climate change was first seen as a scientific problem, then an economic one," explained report author Kate Raworth. "Now it is becoming a matter of international justice.

I wonder...if it changes to an international justice problem, then nothing will ever be done about it...I think it is best to leave it in the economic view...

creative capitalism

There was a nice article on Time a few weeks ago, on creative capitalism, explained and defended by Bill Gates:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1828069,00.html

How do you measure up against the mold on your bread?

An interesting video I came upon in youtube, that links in nicely with our ongoing discussions. Basically, my take on it is that any economic system (like our global economy nowadays) attempting to achieve sustained growth is bound to fail, sooner or later. Resource depletion sets in at some point, and the system suffers a drastic correction from its state of overshoot to either a much lower equilibrium point. Given the news in the last few months (food prices, oil prices, economic crisis, raw material shortages...), I´m getting the feeling that we´re going to find out pretty soon where the ceiling is...