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Message 4089
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| Subject: | [socialcredit] capital | | Date: | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 14:26:02 (EDT) | | From: | Triumphofthepast <Triumphofthepast @...com>
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Keith objects to my including "raw materials" as "capital." For one thing, I didn't say HOW raw. Steel is a raw material, but it is not "just there." Ruskin's example is bulbs and tulips. A bulb is a more natural form than steel, but I for one would never dare say a bulb was "just there." I'm not sure where one can draw a line, or really what is the need to draw a line.
"Economics is finally being applied to conserving nature as contrasted to merely consuming and exploiting it." Social credit anticipated environmentalism (Douglas complaining of polution and the destruction of beautiful rural landscapes by mining and chemical industries). The only difference is that Douglas regarded this as a higher form of EFFICIENCY, a careful stewardship of the natural world given us by God. The conservation of nature can always be referred back to ultimate benefit to human beings of this or future generations.
Michael
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