Deflection is needed in this case. Nothing good comes from focusing on goods created while ignoring all the societal costs.
Cut down the remaining bush in NZ and selling it off would juice up the GDP, for example.
Deflection is needed in this case. Nothing good comes from focusing on goods created while ignoring all the societal costs.
Cut down the remaining bush in NZ and selling it off would juice up the GDP, for example.
Are the ants from somewhere else in New Zealand or imported?
If you’re a native plant or animal, it will probably feel perfect.
Will the trickle down effects also be retrospective?
I used to live in California where a neighbour had a massive feijoa tree. There were a lot of big fruit trees around, so it was common for people to put out a bag of fruit near the street and people would snatch them up.
I stumbled upon this full bag of feijoas one day in front of their house and squealed FEIJOAS! (They call them pineapple-guavas there). I took only a handful because I didn’t want to be greedy. The next day I walked by and clearly no one had taken any so I took more. A few more days and I was snatching the remainder. The homeowner came out and chatted with me. She said they’d been putting out what they’d couldn’t eat for years and hardly anyone ever takes them. I told them to let me know whenever they had any and I’d take them.
Eventually, she started leaving bags of fruit on my porch during fruiting season. And that’s how I got free feijoa delivery. One year I made chutney and jam!
As an interesting side note, the “pineapple-guava” tree is actually a very popular landscape plant in the US. But whenever I’ve stumbled upon them in fruiting season, fruit is rotting in the ground or being eaten by crows.
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From Simon Kuznets, who invented GDP as a concept:
If he can question it, then we certainly should instead of just accepting it because “we’ve always done it this way”.