will the next leap in human awareness coincide with an ethical revolution of economics.....?

Question

or are the economists and industrialists going to lead us to extinction as a species?

Answer 1

Try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking

and look at the Oldest Private Banks and the Swiss Bank

The mainstream media, workforce, education system, companies, banks, energy supplies and governments are controlled by the richest people in the world such as the super-rich Rothschild and Rockefeller families. They also hide behind many organizations such as the United Nations, the WTO and the Council on Foreign relations.

Something must be wrong when approximately: 90% of the world's population are worse off financially than the average pensioner, 95% of small businesses make a loss and 1/3 of the worlds population go to bed hungry.

Maybe you willfind it with the E. U.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

or the Bank Of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England

The answer for me is;
When human/public desire in products and services become a "fever pitch" for ecologically friendly products and transportation worldwide the world stands a chance because bankers will make money from eco-friendly.

You see our present course as a species will lead us to contaminate or destroy our 'boisphere" before we overpopulate. The existing technologies to feed us all are available with supercrops, aquafarming etc. People starve and perish and people pollute the bioshpere because it makes money. Carbon emissions, plastics and flouro-chemicals are changing our atmosphere as third world and China grow and use coal for electrical power.

The middle east is a boiling pot for world war due to the 9 trillion US dollars in oil under Iraq and the nuclear threat with Iran next door. If China or Russia get involved were all in trouble.

A major change in the world population desire's from their goverments for policy's and attitudes consistent with bio-social transformation creating optimal conditions for social and ecological healing is our best hope.


Maybe personal preparedness is the best answer. Money may not be an issue by 2012. The Mayan calender shows the end of days at Dec. 12th 2012.

Answer 2

I don't think that's an 'all or nothing' question. I think it's a war of attrition where the benevolence and inspiration of the individual will eventually overrule the mindless destruction of the mob. In that way, eventually and bit by bit, the leaps in human awareness will eventually mean that what the economists measure and direct, and the industrialists enact, will be benign and ethically enriching.

But, hell, I'm an optimist. I mean, all that said, there's a hell of a lot of divs out there, and a lot of them run companies.

Answer 3

Ethics and economics do not sit well together. Was it ethical to invade Iraq? Probably not, but it made good economic sense re the oil situation. Is it ethical to sell junk food to children? But huge profits are made from it. There are many other examples all of them showing when there is a conflict between ethics and economics economics win.Rest assured that if industry leads us towards extinction they will come up with something to sell us that will make dying feel better.

Answer 4

More likely a revolution of being economic with our ethics. I don't think there's any need for extinction despite so called over crowding of the planet. I believe man is capable with help to over come these problems. I think there will be a revolution of technology in the next few hundred years the likes of which we can now only dream of.

Answer 5

The new trend of corporate entities undertaking social responsibilities, such as Gates, Buffett, Bronson, Google, etc. is an encouraging sign, however the general inbred corruption, fraud, greed, unethical practices permeate economic entities to such a degree that I fear for the future. The way governments and private enterprise deal with the issue of climate change will be a telling sign post.