Why are there no economists and politicians telling us that no matter how much we want to keep on living the way we are we just can’t. Have you heard any of the rent-a-quote economic experts mentioning the environmental crisis that is approaching? I haven’t. It’s like the big bogey man that no one dares mention. I’m beginning to suspect that they just don’t know what to do and so have ignored it in their modelling.

We live in a world where peer pressure is just as important to most adults as it is to kids in the playground. Governments, are made of people. They are just as susceptible to peer-pressure, if not more so. It is the people around them who are the key to the power they seek. They respond to business, the media and then the electorate.

Educate those around the government.
Educate the current government.
Educate the media – they are the vehicle of the politicians and big business
Educate the population.

As long as the global economic ship was sailing along trouble free why would it change direction. The iceberg is in front now. Now they will choose to turn or to go straight on. Their choice will depend on the peer pressure around them.

What we have to decide is the direction we want to take.

I think we are all agreed we want a fairer, more honest and sustainable future. I’ll think more on what you say.