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The system of Nature ,
Of which Man is a part ,
Tends to be ......
1. Self – balancing
2. Self – adjusting
3. Self- cleansing
But it is not necessarily so
With
The Technology
created by
The Man.
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Finite resources treated as income rather than Capital
Income can be generated again and again
Capital is the first time finite investment.
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Further more such prosperity ‘is attainable only by cultivating such drives of human
nature as greed and envy , which destroy intelligence, happiness, serenity and
thereby the peacefulness of man.
An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in the single minded pursuit of wealth i.e.
Materialism does not fit in to this world , because it contains within itself no limiting
principal, while the environment in which it places itself is strictly limited.
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Buddhist Economics
A call for a new philosophy ,
Which values people above production &
values labour above outputs.
Work should be a dignified and creative process to be encountered, not a factor of
production to be minimised or replaced though mechanisation.
Also emphasise on the Buddhist values of non-attachment to material goods and
respect for all living things.
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‘The Idolatry of Gigantism’ in Modern Economics.
People can be themselves only in small comprehensible groups.
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Is Going Green really such a big deal
Or is it that
Common Sense has just become so very Rare.
