Sublime

In the words of narrator George Manuel, “perpetual debt binds us firmly to the store.”

As the cost of waste and resources increases, business can save money by hiring now-less-expensive labor and capital to save now-more-expensive resources.

Berne Declaration

can’t see the flows of power and control in the world, the systemic suck of resources from south to north.

Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited.

A more holistic way of thinking about growth is to recognise that it is broadly equivalent to the rate at which our economy is metabolising the living world.

Contrary to the founding theories of development economics, inequality does not make economies grow faster: if anything, it slows them down. And it does so by wasting the potential of much of the population: people who could be schoolteachers or market traders, nurses or micro-entrepreneurs – actively contributing to the wealth and well-being of th

Instead of pursuing growth for its own sake and hoping that it will magically improve people’s lives, the goal must be to focus on improving people’s lives first and foremost – and if that requires or entails economic growth, then so be it. In other words, organise the economy around the needs of humans and ecology, rather than the other way around

Current global trade treaties and agricultural policies disregard subsidiarity and people’s fundamental right to food sovereignty.