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The economists say if you clear-cut the forest, take the money, and put it in the bank you can make 6% to 7%. If you clear-cut the forest, put it in the bank, and put it in the bank, and put it in the bank, and put it in the bank.

The economists say if you clear-cut the forest, take the money, and put it in the bank you can make 6% to 7%. If you clear-cut the forest, put it in the Malaysia, and pop it in the beginning you can make 30% to 40%.

So who cares whether you keep the forest, cut it down, put the money somewhere else, when those forests are gone, put it in finish, when the fish are gone, put it in computers.

Money doesn't stand for anything, and money now grows faster than the real world. Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.

Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive. If you take an introductory course in economics, the professor in the first lecture will show a slide of the economy, and it looks very impressive in all raw materials, extraction process manufacture, post-production, and production.

They try to impress you because they know it damn well. Economics is not a science, but they are trying to fool us into thinking that it is a real science.

Economics is a set of values that they try to use, mathematical equations, and all that stuff, and pretend it is science.

But if you ask the economist, in that equation, where do you put the ozone layer? Where do you put the deep underground aquifers of fossil water? Where do you put topsoil or biodiversity?

Their answer is, oh, those are externalities. But then you might as well be on Mars, that economy is not based in anything like the real world.

It is life, the web of life that filters water in the hydrologic cycle, it is microorganisms in the soil that create the soil that we can grow our food in.

Nature performs all kinds of services, insects, fertilize all of the flowering plants. These services are vital to the health of the planet.

Economists call these externalities. That is not.

We are told over and over the economy is the bottom line. I don't think so.

What kind of a world would I like to see our species generations from now? I hope it will be a creature that understands what the real bottom line is.

The gas that you put in your car burned to heat your home actually costs a lot more than it seems like it does.

But don't worry, you're not the one who asked to pay that extra cost. We're talking about externalities, the hidden economic and environmental costs of burning fossil fuels that are distributed not to the person who does the purchasing but to everyone.

It is stuff that we have to pay as a society and as individuals. It is extremely high. Let's take a look at a chart showing the adding up of these externalities.

The big thing you're seeing there is the cost in terms of air pollution. Air pollution obviously costs in terms of making people sick, causing disease and things of that sort.

And you're seeing there that coal alone does multi trillion dollar damage costs in terms of air pollution.

Then you have the impact on global warming and the effect that global warming has not just on the environment but also on businesses in terms of wildfires and other things of that sort.

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