http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ddIVgnVKvs&annotation_id=annotation_53909&feature=ivI think its still worth listening to Gwynne Dyer
I believe Stan mentioned " The 4 conclusions " in an earlier post but I don't recal actauly having it posted..
Recently some nice people
UNITE in the UK began to refer to me as " Comrad Doug " in response to my more militant stance on trade unionism and greed and I don't think I mind it as much as it used to bother me lol. So I think I will work that into just about every conversation from now on refering to anyone of a like mind who I see is being attacked for have a left wing and local view.
There is a growing feeling in the cirlcles I talk with that the single biggest reason the enviroment is in the mess it is caused by greed.
A Union is a rather selfsih form of socialsm since it doens't realy adress the problems of sociciety in general but encourages to some extent the me first at the trough mentality. And its not all that different from the pure Capitalsit force that are working ( not by any master plan but just it's nature ) to concentrate wealth in that direction. Midlle class and upper class, two shrinking tiers of society fighting and arguing with each other while the sillent growing underclass looks on in frustration and resentment.
Nothing we do seems to adress the rel problem of trying to decide not what is fair but how much is enough.
Unless we are prepared to discuss what is enough and set quotas, ration, and look for a sustainable way of life we are fucked. You and I and nearly everyone we know does not fit into the this semi educated to illiterate class of "have not's" who toil in the fringes. The real danger is what happens if they decide they are not going to be sidelined anymore. IF global warming causes mass migrations like some predict and resource depleation and energy shortages combine with a critcal mass of realy pissed off poor people we will have a real probem.