Jonathan Schofield on Nostr: My thanks to npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 yesterday for citing: “That’s your bloody GDP. ...
My thanks to npub1g0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4msp3tvm4 (npub1g0t…tvm4) yesterday for citing:
“That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours.”
I found this 2017 Aditya Chakrabortty article reporting it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/10/blunt-heckler-economists-failing-us-booming-britain-gdp-london
It’s a pretty damn near perfect 6-word summation of our predicament:
- Growth within countries that breeds social bitterness
- Growth between countries that breeds geopolitical hostility
- Growth that feeds biophysical destruction.
What do we do about it?
“That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours.”
I found this 2017 Aditya Chakrabortty article reporting it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/10/blunt-heckler-economists-failing-us-booming-britain-gdp-london
It’s a pretty damn near perfect 6-word summation of our predicament:
- Growth within countries that breeds social bitterness
- Growth between countries that breeds geopolitical hostility
- Growth that feeds biophysical destruction.
What do we do about it?