{"id":7053,"date":"2015-04-03T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2015-04-03T07:10:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:10:50","slug":"if-were-going-to-borrow-against-the-future-lets-borrow-to-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7053","title":{"rendered":"If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest"},"content":{"rendered":"

If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The are much better ways to spend the next $1 Trillion<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

We are at an important juncture as a global society: either we immediately prioritize a new trajectory focused on creating a positive, functional future or — by continuing the consumptive, extractive, exploitative\u00a0status quo —<\/em>\u00a0we will default into a nasty nightmare.<\/p>\n

What will determine which future path we take is our collective narrative. It’s the story we tell ourselves — who we are, what we value.<\/p>\n

The Power Of Narrative<\/h2>\n

Under the old narrative, the one currently operating and taking us towards disaster, powerful people and interests simply perpetuate a regime of\u00a0More of the same.<\/em><\/p>\n

And I do mean \u2018More.\u2019\u00a0 The old narrative rests upon an ideology of\u00a0endless growth<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It wants and requires\u00a0more<\/em>of everything.\u00a0 More cars sold, more houses built, more jobs created, and more goods and services of every description sold next year than last.<\/p>\n

Everything flows from that want for more. The defenders of the old ideology are therefore defenders of our astonishingly-wide wealth gap, rapid energy depletion, emptying aquifers, disappearing pollinators, ruined soils, and dying oceans.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t have to be this way.<\/p>\n

A subtext of the old narrative is that humans are destroyers: we wreck natural systems. Put humans somewhere and first the large animals go extinct. Then the waters become polluted. Next, the soils are stripped.<\/p>\n

Less well known, possibly because it shines a bitter light on our common practices, is that humans can be incredible forces of positive change, using their big brains to build natural abundance at rates far faster than nature by itself is able.<\/p>\n

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