[The Low Bar] 8 Reasons Global Capitalism Makes Our Lives Worse

[Jake Barlow]

Our way of measuring our worth is so twisted says Helena Norberg-Hodge, that when there is "an oil spill, the GDP goes up; when drinking water is so polluted we have to buy it in bottles, GDP goes up. War, cancer, epidemic illnesses -- all of these involve an exchange of money, so they end up on the positive side of the balance sheet."

But there is hope.

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Posted By Jake Barlow to The Low Bar at 1/17/2011 10:56:00 AM