[CitizensTruth] Amazing Presentation

[Hal Snyder]

I am beginning to wonder if a system that monetizes our fundamental  
interactions with one another is a major obstacle to peace, justice,  
and sustainability.

It's like industrial society, which made huge gains possible but at  
prodigious and unsustainable cost to our planetary support system,  
deadly to other species and to indigenous races of homo sapiens.

Consider Derrick Jensen's "Endgame", The Premises:

Premise One: Civilization is not and can never be sustainable. This  
is especially true for industrial civilization.

http://www.endgamethebook.org/Excerpts/1-Premises.htm

Hal

On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Kat wrote:


> In a capitalistic society, however, oil companies are free to sell  

> their product in whichever market is most profitable.  It's not  

> realistic to expect corporations to sell cheaper at home than they  

> can get on the global market.  That said, we shouldn't subsidize  

> companies who won't give the U.S. taxpayers a return on their  

> subsidy investment.

>

> Reducing consumption is likely the best way to fix the problem.   

> Eliminate subsidies, reduce consumption, and let the corporations  

> sell their product in a way that maximizes profit -- then tax that  

> profit at a responsible rate.