A Promise to Future Generations

Hello everyone,

I thought I would get the "posting" going by showing you a very interesting quote Prof. Pressnail sent me a while ago. Feel free to post any comments about it!!

We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present,
and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering.
Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich.

-Paul Hawken, Commencement Address,
University of Portland, 3 May 2009