Excellent presentation. Greenpeace developed Greenfreeze ozone-safe refrigerant, and left the patent as open source, offering it freely to companies. A small East German firm started it off, then Germany outlawed any other toxic technology, then it spread through Europe. The story goes on, with resistance in South America and the US, but it arrived in SA in 2004, and was only legalized in the US in 2011. Case study. F M Lappe wrote about Vandana Shiva's work in preserving native seed varieties. I think Via Campesina might be linked to that too. Great to hear Farley espousing the theory around these social and environmental justice activities in the grassroots.
One solution is Creative Commons licensing rather than patenting. I support this. In order to cooperate on a massive scale, we need to have a "government of the people". This is doable. See: kck.st/1cAtUoK
Lots of good info, monopolies, poor, patents,.... but wish he had mentioned that the government deficit = non-government surplus to the penny. If we want the federal government to correct its budget stand, then we must necessarily be asking ourselves to correct ours. If we demand that the government runs a surplus, then we are demanding that we, the private sector run a deficit. Take your pick: would you like the private sector to be in surplus or the government? You cannot have both. Presumably, we'd prefer the private sector to save and accumulate financial assets, which means that the government must run a deficit and accumulate financial liabilities? State and local budgets are different than federal budget. They have to balance, "Beware of politicians bearing household analogies"www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2015/01/14/beware-of-politicians-bearing-household-analogies-3/ We can run out of clean water, clean air, safe food, sustainable energy, minerals, and metals, but we can't run out of dollars. And the Euro can't run out of euros. Same with all fiat currencies.
Joshua is brilliant, insightful and provocative. This is exactly what is needed in the field of economics. We highly recommend watching this!
Such a bright compassionate human being I really hope his work has increasing influence in the world!
Found you through the recent Nate Hagens interview. Brilliant lecture and analysis of our predicament
Excellent presentation. Greenpeace developed Greenfreeze ozone-safe refrigerant, and left the patent as open source, offering it freely to companies. A small East German firm started it off, then Germany outlawed any other toxic technology, then it spread through Europe. The story goes on, with resistance in South America and the US, but it arrived in SA in 2004, and was only legalized in the US in 2011. Case study. F M Lappe wrote about Vandana Shiva's work in preserving native seed varieties. I think Via Campesina might be linked to that too. Great to hear Farley espousing the theory around these social and environmental justice activities in the grassroots.
One solution is Creative Commons licensing rather than patenting. I support this. In order to cooperate on a massive scale, we need to have a "government of the people". This is doable. See: kck.st/1cAtUoK
The speech remember me Ugo Mattei
the absolute myth of never ending growth.
the Venus project
Lots of good info, monopolies, poor, patents,.... but wish he had mentioned that the government deficit = non-government surplus to the penny.
If we want the federal government to correct its budget stand, then we must necessarily be asking ourselves to correct ours. If we demand that the government runs a surplus, then we are demanding that we, the private sector run a deficit.
Take your pick: would you like the private sector to be in surplus or the government? You cannot have both. Presumably, we'd prefer the private sector to save and accumulate financial assets, which means that the government must run a deficit and accumulate financial liabilities?
State and local budgets are different than federal budget. They have to balance, "Beware of politicians bearing household analogies"www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2015/01/14/beware-of-politicians-bearing-household-analogies-3/
We can run out of clean water, clean air, safe food, sustainable energy, minerals, and metals, but we can't run out of dollars. And the Euro can't run out of euros. Same with all fiat currencies.