Most people will have to face challenges associated with the rising price of gasoline, now and in the future, and some will respond by switching to a smaller car, others will call for more equitable sharing of limited, non-renewable resources, and others will respond with snippets from their personal philosophy of life, e.g., as follows:
“I don’t have to (change or share).”
“I don’t want to.”
“And I won’t.”
After six to seven decades of economic, financial and lifestyle growth, all of which was seemingly wrapped in the belief that it was without limits, there live among us a goodly percentage of people who feel or trust that life will go on and on as it ‘always has.’
I believe those who declare there is nothing much wrong with our current economic, financial and lifestyle models - and there is very little need for change - will make it more difficult than it already is to promote or actively seek change in the way families, homes, businesses and governments operate.
Please, don’t hold your breath waiting for a person with some degree of authority in a community, province, state or country to promote a retreat from the “growth without limits, culture of big” to a “live small and prosper” philosophy in order to conserve or equitably share natural resources.
And don’t expect an economic genius to come along anytime soon to figure out how to bring the price of fuel down or get everyone to adopt sound business or governmental policy. Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims, recent Nobel Prize winners in economics have no easy answers to a global crisis one called simply “this mess.” World-wide panics, crises “what’s going on in Europe... that’s all about expectations about what other people are going to do,” Sargent said in an interview. (Oct. 11, London Free Press)
What will you do? Change? Not change?
More challenges ahead.
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