Comments on: Problems http://beyondgrowth.co.uk Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:17:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bill Clarke http://beyondgrowth.co.uk/problems/#comment-151 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:24:52 +0000 http://beyondgrowth.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-151 I agree wholeheartedly with your ideas and would like to add to them by suggesting you include the idea of monetary reform as outlined in site .

A major contribution to the need for growth is the fact that 97% our the money supply is created by high street banks every time they make a loan. This is debt money and places a heavy burden on borrowers to pay it back, plus interest. This means that their business has to prosper, grow, just to meet their obligations. In the case of mortgage holders, they have to keep their jobs (help their firm to grow) or lose their homes.

Money is a social need and should only be issued by the state. The banks have been allowed to privatize the money supply, in their own interest and at great profit to themselves. The income from creating money should belong to the people, through the state, for the benefit of all.

Steadystaters should all support monetary reform. If they do, as part of an awareness campaign, then the world we want will be closer.

Bill Clarke

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]]> By: zoky http://beyondgrowth.co.uk/problems/#comment-9 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:38:41 +0000 http://beyondgrowth.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-9 Would it be possible to say a bit more about how the Sustainable Development Commission arrived at its figures in the pie chart? I’ve looked at the original Report but I’m none the wiser. Is it based on the factors which respondents listed first, or rated in a particular order? How was the pie chart compiled?

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