If our economic system destroys our planet ; then what is the better way ?

Question

If our economic system destroys our planet ; then what is the better way ?

Answer 1

Hands down, the better system would be what the Founding Fathers of the U.S. envisioned....an agrarian based society.  I don't mean modern farming either.  I mean the good old fashioned permaculture way of farming.

With the majority of people living and working so close to the earth, they care deeply what is happening to the earth.  Everyone else is drawing their income from the work of the farmers, so they care deeply what happens to the farmers.  The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker....those sort of people.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 2

George Carlin - "The planet is fine.  WE"RE not."

There is nothing we can do to "destroy the planet".  That sentiment is so arrogant.  The planet will eventually spew some sort of virus or bacteria that is so fast-acting that we won't be able to deal with.  Then, the planet will "shake us off like a surface nuisance".  The earth has survived so many catastrophic events - there's nothing we can do to "destroy the planet".  All we can do is destroy US.

Save the planet???  We need to focus on saving US.

Answer 3

well my friend.....ur d**n right...its easy to say "weve got to find alternative ways"....the problem is to actually make it happen.......some of my suggestions are recycling plastic wastes using them to lay roads.......introducing siphon based vehicles(vehicles that could run on water),solar vehicles.....extracting the most from the renewable sources of energy rather than the the non renewable ones like solar.....and in india especially....ways to prevent people from burning wastes..

Answer 4

Move to a new planet.

Answer 5

Extinction.  Or at least a large scale cull.