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The wrong harvest: what GDP can’t see (www.lyrebirddreaming.com)

submitted 4 days ago by arbilp3@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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If I’d driven to Woolworths and bought imported or industrially grown vegetables wrapped in plastic, flowers flown in from Kenya, and produce grown with synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, that would count as a positive contribution to Gross Domestic Product. The packaging counts. The freight counts. The retail transaction counts. The profit counts. Even the pollution and waste generated along the way are often folded into “growth” in the system.

But stepping outside to pick lunch and dinner from the garden, and cutting flowers for the kitchen table doesn’t. That should tell us something.

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[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It tells us what we already know. If it doesn't benefit the shareholders, it doesn't count.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd say that many people don't.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most people also don't care

Which when aggregated is why we're in this mess.

[–] arbilp3@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

And those who don't care are mostly those who have not been exposed to thinking about the world and the economy in ways other than the constant mainstream narrative which is about consumption and self-centredness, about competition and lack. Look at the world situation right now. It's a result of that mindset taken to the max. Those of us who do care must keep up the message that a saner society is possible. Perhaps what we're going have to face in the next few years will teach our wasteful societies a lesson.