Rober Kennedy was gunned down in 1968.

Very few people realise today that Robert Kennedy
was the first true-green politician.

People and their means of existence (their economy)
were intrinsically linked in Robert Kennedy's formula
for environmental action. He would have introduced a
genuine sustainable society and a better world had he
lived to do so - and that was decades ago.

Here's what he had to say before he was killed:

"We will find neither national purpose nor personal
satisfaction in a mere continuation of ...an endless
amassing of wordly goods. We cannot measure national
spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national
achievement by the Gross National Product. For the
Gross National Product includes air pollution, and
ambulances to clear our highways from carnage.
It counts special locks for our doors and jails for
people who break them. The Gross National Product
includes destruction of redwoods and the death of
Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm
and mines and nuclear warheads... It includes... the
broadcasting of television programs which glorify
violence to sell goods to our children.

And if the Gross National Product includes all this, there
is much it does not comprehend... the health of our
families, the quality of their education, or the joy of
their play. It is indifferent to the decay of our
factories and the safety of our streets. It does not include
the beauty of our poetry, or the strength of our marriages,
the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity
of our public officials... the Gross National Product
measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our
wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our
devotion to our country. It measures everything, in
short, except that which makes life worthwhile..."

No wonder Robert Kennedy was considered a radical ---
too dangerous, to be President of the USA.

What he said in the speech quoted above was what mainstream
economists would come to say in the future. It has taken
so many decades for the fatal fault of traditional
national accounts to sink in.

Poirot,
It does appear that you're living a privileged existence. You obviously can afford to trivialise a life you're not living. Are you prepared to share all you work for with someone you don't know ? Unless you do you should refrain from sarcasm & ridicule.

individual,

It's quite entertaining reading your "assumptions". You're a judgmental sneering sort of chappy it seems...certainly not someone who I can be bothered engaging any longer.

Poirot,
You're effort is wasted trying to dig yourself out of this one.

Mate, there's some posters who it soon becomes apparent aren't even worth picking up a shovel for.

Mate ?
Poirot,
I always thought you were a sheilah. Well, surprises never cease.