blog.ryara.net » Society http://blog.ryara.net Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:21:08 +0000 en hourly 1 Making poverty and wealth history (follow up) http://blog.ryara.net/2007/04/17/making-poverty-and-wealth-history-follow-up/ http://blog.ryara.net/2007/04/17/making-poverty-and-wealth-history-follow-up/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:43:53 +0000 tobbez http://blog.ryara.net/2007/04/17/making-poverty-and-wealth-history-follow-up/ Continue reading →]]> I recently got a comment on a post I wrote quite a while ago. It was from someone who had though about the same thing, and decided to make a whole site about it. While I do not believe that their effort will make a very big difference (at least not enough to do very much about it), I think it is a good thought (and initiative). So, I can at least write about it and hope that someone who would believe enough in it reads it and tries to do something about it.

]]> http://blog.ryara.net/2007/04/17/making-poverty-and-wealth-history-follow-up/feed/ 1 Consuming for a better world? http://blog.ryara.net/2005/10/15/consuming-for-a-better-world/ http://blog.ryara.net/2005/10/15/consuming-for-a-better-world/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:16:46 +0000 tobbez http://blog.ryara.net/2006/10/15/consuming-for-a-better-world/ Continue reading →]]> Note: This was originally posted on my old blog, http://tobbez.blogspot.com/, which I don’t use anymore since I wanted to keep everything in one place.
Quite recently I read something about an American that had been to Europe and while he was there said he thought the Europeans didn’t consume enough. Reading about that made me start thinking.

Why should the world get any better just because we start consuming more and more? Unfortunately it seems like a great part of humanity thinks so (or maybe it’s only the politicians?). At least it seems so because how well it’s going for a country is measured by how much it’s inhabitants are consuming. Instead of this I think we should aim on consuming less to make the earth’s resources last longer.

The main reason for wanting the consumption to increase is probably because of the big corporations that want to earn much money, which depends on how society is built up. It’s built so that people have to compete, but it should be much better to have a society where everyone cooperated.

And finally, let’s finish with a saying:
The higher you get, the harder you’ll fall.

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