Comments on: Creating a life-affirming planetary civilization

By: Chuck Turner « parallelnormal

Chuck Turner « parallelnormal — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:46:20 +0000

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By: Steven Earl Salmony

Steven Earl Salmony — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:31:54 +0000

Hi Ben and Orion,

It seems to me that a life-affirming civilization would be one that responds reasonably and sensibly to the requirements of practical reality.
For example, Al Gore and the scientists of IPCC appear to be doing this very thing; however, people do not appear to considering the potentially profound implications of their work.

Please consider two GUIDEPOSTS:

http://www.liveearth.org/

http://www.liveearth.org/?p=314

Thanks,

Steve

By: orionkriegman

orionkriegman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:03:28 +0000

Hi Ben Z.

Yeah, it would be quite empowering if Americans could choose to invest their retirement funds in local community-owned businesses. My understanding from Michael Shuman is that there are some ways this could happen legally, but it will require a lot of organizing effort and some seed money to set up. He and others are working on it though.

-Orion

By: Ben Z.

Ben Z. — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:45:15 +0000

I didn’t know there used to be local investment markets - that would be really cool. I’d love to have my invesment money go to local businesses instead of giant global corporations. I wonder if the time will come when congress regulates them to keep them safe instead of just outlawing them - although that would redirect a lot of investment from all the giant global corporate lobbyists…