GREEN ECONOMY

What is it? It is not only to develop clean energy. It is something that happens when we apply the maxim:

Examples of how each of us individually could apply this would be:

• buy less, choose well, make it last;
• engage in culture-for this you have to engage with the past, great art is always alive in the   present, timeless;
• prepare your own food (you need to plan).

In these examples of engagement you are exercising real choice (thinking) which takes you away from consumption (just sucking things up). You invest in your own happiness (You get out what you put in) and you invest in a beautiful world which you help to make stable.

It would be great if you went on demonstrations. The urgent matter in the UK is to prevent fracking.
To apply the maxim government would have to do the opposite of what it does at the moment e.g. pay students to study as they did when I was young. Money in circulation is good for the economy, why shouldn’t it be in the hands of students instead of only in the hands of business and banks?

But government must stop pretending a faith in the capitalist system. And we must protest the fiction of growth and with it the needless imposition of austerity (squeeze).
The capitalist system stimulates economic growth by issuing more debt Rulers of the World. In the rich world growth no longer bears any link to prosperity – though in the poor nations increase in material well-being is necessary.

We measure growth by the daily rise and fall of stock prices but this only tells us how fast the current stock bubble is inflating or deflating and thus how financial speculators are doing relative to the rest of us.
We need to carry out our maxim. Good government could encourage the circulation of money based on real value and by so doing build a new and stable economy by e.g. having more teachers; more doctors and nurses. It could pay doctors to work in poor countries – we would make friends and help control population (greater health and sound attitudes would inform decisions) this would help  the world; pay cleaners more money; limit top pay; have a four day week; limit advertising; work towards more self-sufficiency in food; have a housing plan, it would have to be high rise but we would keep the old houses; change the laws of sea and land away from private ownership in bulk quantity; exercise strict control over whether to allow manufacture of worthless goods – it is better for the economy to pay people not to work than that they make rubbish: Quality versus Quantity.
Things would cost more but there would be fair distribution of wealth with the aim of zero waste. Everyone would have the right to water, food and shelter.

This world would be stable, stick together and be sustainable if there would be a hierarchy of values with intellectual achievement at the top. Ideal would be the system during the thousand years of Chinese civilization when scholars and artists ran the government and its bureaucracy.
These are just some suggestions to give an idea that the new economy can work. We could get there if we apply the maxim. There would be central national government with a federal system of greater regional autonomy. I won’t mention anything about the world at this point but the aim would be peace.

If you have suggestions for a Green Economy please write them below.