Comments by "John Roberts" (@view1st) on "Economic solutions: How to go from financialized neoliberalism to a productive, sustainable economy" video.

  1. ​​ @flyingfishnet  The entire population of the world (approximately 8 billions) could fit comfortably in the state of Texas. And could be easily fed too. It's not resources per se that put limits on population, but access to resources by the majority of the world's population. We live in a world of artificial scarcity where resources are monopolised. That's not to say that we shouldn't do anything to mitigate the damage we, as a species, might be doing to the climate and ecology of the planet. Of course we should, but what I'm trying to say is population growth is not the main issue here. Also, population decline comes with its own problems, not least extinction!
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  2. And unfortunately it's what the present economic system is. In a word rentierism.
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