Resource Scarcity

Been reading again some ecological economics articles for earlier this term. There's this big debate about whether technology and efficiency increases will lead to a decreasing dependancy on natural resources. Some people (in what I have affectionately termed the 'fools' camp) seem to believe that this is actually the case & as long as we are all just really efficient, plus harvesting the sun's energy more effectively, we can happily carry on growing and consuming. Well, at least that's what I think they are on about. But then there's the other camp of ecological economists who point out - what are they on about? Just because your really efficient doesn't mean that you take natural resources out of the equation! The best chef in the world cannot make the nicest cake if he has no ingredients . . . to paraphrase the analogy. Forms of capital are not completly interchangable, but compliments. We need to be worried about these economists if they really are thinking that growth is not resource dependent. Or we're never going to get anywhere.
Right, back to work
rik

More lyrics

More song lyrics - though not strictly politically minded I'm afraid :) Am officially smiling for the first time in a long time!

Afternoon Drinking

Cracked open lager in the summer sun
Makes me think of times that I'd forgotten
You were meant to be there by my side
But I just got my own way one too many times

Afternoon drinking with my friends and me
Back down, in the sun, happy as can be
Drinking in the evening isn't quite the same
Now I'm pissed in the daytime and I've only got you to blame!

Ba ba da ba da ba baa
Ba ba da da da da da da da daa


Try To Survive

Why is it that day to day
I find it so hard to say
Whether ranting of politician's lies
Or staring deep into your eyes?

“I cannot help” is all she'd say
Your gonna get it anyway
The secret to all my beliefs
The reason it's all sold off cheap

Chorus:
It's taken my life to realise
It caught me out with such surprise
I've done my best now to deny
But I have to be with you

Singing on my acoustic
That night we shared my bed
For the first time
I wished on all our lives
That it would be enough for us
Just trying to survive