A good piece on sustainability combined with economy. Too Big To Fails don’t want to hear this because it flies in the face of their practices of greed–they want it all.
Note the circle created by the farmer tending the sheep, the mills that make the wool into usable product, the crafs person making the wool into useful clothing…and on. Traditional roles would have the men raising the sheep with women creating the clothing…a benefit to both sexes. I just wanted to point out that women contributed, without much acknowledgement, throughout history in our very survival. Without warm clothing to sustain throughout cold winters, we would not have survived. Additionally, it was women who picked nuts, berries, and roots that also helped sustain humans–men were not that great of hunters back in the day….
How can rural communities advance the common goal of economic stability, healthy living and environmental stewardship?
Food, clothing and shelter are the necessities of human survival. These industries and the transportation of these goods also have the largest impact on the environment. These same industries also drive a good portion of the local economy as well as corporate economic growth.
Most countries use capitalism as a way of organizing the economy. The things that are used to grow, make and transport products are owned by individual people or a company rather than the government. The mid-18th century gave rise to industrial capitalism, made possible by the accumulation of vast amounts of capital under the mercantile phase of capitalism and its investment in machinery. Over the past two decades, Wall Street investors, boards of directors, financial analysts, even auditors and career politicians have all collaborated in creating a new type of…
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