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Posted on: June 15, 2022
6/15/22 — eNews #129
Dealing with Inflation
Let’s call inflation what is really is — PRICE GOUGING! Corporations charge what they can because they can. Yes, we have some supply chain problems. But that doesn’t justify $5+/gallon gas! Profiteering does. Corporations are capitalizing on the stress caused by the pandemic, by inadequate gun protections, and by the climate crisis.
The problem is exaggerated by an emphasis on economic growth. Steady-state economics is a much more reasonable way to provide adequately for ‘most everybody. But it isn’t enough for profit greedy stockholders and overpaid executives.
The situation is further complicated by pro-natalists who think we need population growth to get more consumers and more tax-payers. Actually we need smaller families — of all colors — to relieve the pressure on the environment.
A most promising solution for ‘most everybody in the northern hemisphere is voluntary simplicity. That means choosing to live a less consumptive life — live simplify that others may simply live. Voluntary simplicity is not simple minded, nor is it easy. But it is fulfilling. SimpleLivingWorks.org is packed with free ideas, strategies, educational resources in print, voice and video.
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Solving the Climate Crisis with No-Growth Economics
To get a worldview very different from the greed and profit-oriented politicians and corporatists, visit these solution-oriented resources:
- GrowthBusters
- Post-Carbon Institute / CrazyTown Podcast — SLW! Ep. 109: Richard Heinberg
- CASSE: Center for the Advancement of the Steady-State Economy / Steady-Stater Podcast — The Common Good Podcast Ep. 46–Brian Czech (use player)
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Think Sustainable Population!
The signs are here that my prediction of environmental implosion in 2040-50 will indeed happen. I strongly empathize with our grandchildren who will be saddled with the immense problems that are coming. Being white, privileged people, they will probably survive, though billions around the world will not.
We see starvation in many countries, especially Africa; excruciating heat, causing melting of polar ice, wildfires in the U.S. and even death in India; and problematic immigration.
Our opposing positions on abortion may not matter! Until our global population reaches a sustainable level of 3-4 billion, Mother Earth and all her children — human and non-human — are in jeopardy. That can only happen if women choose to have only one child or to be child-free and are not pressured by relatives, friends or partners to have more. The means for that are common for females and males — voluntary sterilization, contraception, abstinence, and (for women) abortion.
“Entrepreneurs” will, of course, strategize to make even more money from the environmental disaster, as they have during the present pandemic. Politicians will argue for more bodies to pay more taxes and to “grow the economy.”
I urge you to review my earlier essay: OverConsumption and OverPopulation Are the Two Primary Drivers of the Climate Crisis — https://simpleliving.startlogic.com/indexoth.php?place=archives/featuredwriters.php#CCD
Thoughtful comments are welcome.
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Recent Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast Episodes
Ep. 0122–Chuck Collins on the Industry That Protects Wealth and How It Hurts Everyone
Ep. 1221–Della Duncan, Renegade Economist, Tells about Doughnut Economics and Other Economic Models Being Put to Work
Ep. 1121–Lauren Van Ham: Radical Inter-religious Cooperation Is Working to Save Life on Our Planet
Ep. 1021–Encuentro–A U.S./Mexico Conversation on Living the Alternative Worldview We Call OneEarth Jubilee
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Worthwhile Blogs, Webinars, Podcasts
What Could Possibly Go Right? with Vicki Robin // Patheos–Progressive Christian // Jesus for Everyone // Crazy Town // Imagine with Us (SpiritualProgressives.org, Tikkiun.org) // Hopecast with Jane Goodall
Peace Podcast from John Dear on Apple and Google. Author of ‘They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change’ — SLW! #114: Part 1 // TCGP #98: Part 2
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