| This week I am going to play doomsayer. We face, | | | | business would realise that there is a fortune to |
| in the next few years, the worst financial crisis that | | | | make in protecting animals and the environment. |
| we will ever see. The governments have very little | | | | A smart business person would understand that we |
| room to move to save the economy and maybe | | | | need this world, this island Earth,to survive. If we |
| they should just let it collapse, but there can, and | | | | destroy it we destroy ourselves. We have limited |
| most likely, will be problems | | | | resources, and businesses should not be abusing |
| In a depressed economy people lose faith in | | | | them just to line their own pockets. |
| governments and seek out people, normally a | | | | Let me make one thing clear, I have no problem with |
| dictator, to give them leadership. The blame for the | | | | greed. Greed make us ambitious, and it has led to |
| problems gets shifted from the real causes to a | | | | many great inventions. Without ambition and a touch |
| minority group, and the dictator informs a gullible and | | | | of greed we would still be sitting in caves, wondering |
| desperate population that the only way to get out of | | | | what the twinkling things in the night sky are. Greed |
| the mess is to steal resources from another country. | | | | and ambition have brought around innovation. |
| In other words, War. However, that is what has | | | | However, our ambition and greed needs to be |
| happened in the past; it does not need to happen | | | | tempered with what is right for everybody and the |
| again. | | | | planet. |
| If we do enter into another depression, we as a | | | | So now we have a chance between boom or |
| world need to see it as a time for change. Now I'm | | | | ka-boom, and unfortunately we are very close to |
| not going to promote an altruistic future, and the | | | | both. At the moment many countries are on the |
| whole world living in peace, equity and total harmony. | | | | verge of bankruptcy. People in countries around the |
| What I am saying is that we need to take steps to | | | | world are losing faith with their governments, as seen |
| ensure that we make a world where we can ensure | | | | here in Australia and England with hung parliaments. |
| that the greed of men and women do not out | | | | Throughout the world we are starting to find a |
| weight the needs of ordinary people or the | | | | minority group, the Muslims (minority in most western |
| environment. | | | | countries that is) to pick on for our problems. Most |
| People have a right to be rich, and our economy | | | | Europeans countries are already starting to Ban the |
| works that way, and it will always work that way, | | | | Burka. All we are waiting on now is a dictator to lead |
| but it can be better. Companies are making outrages | | | | us around by the nose. |
| fortunes at the expense of ordinary people and the | | | | But It doesn't have to be this way. Stop investing |
| environment. I know and believe that companies | | | | into the old ways of the economy and let's start |
| need to make profits so that they can employ | | | | focusing our economy into making this world better, |
| people and keep the economy going. However, the | | | | not just for ourselves, but for our environment as |
| excessive fortunes are disappearing into only a few | | | | well. |
| pockets and the environment in which we need to | | | | Terry Shadwell |
| survive is being raped and ruined. | | | | P.S. I am not a greenie in any sense. I believe in |
| Currently we live in a world with fantastic technology, | | | | farming, logging and the mining of raw materials and I |
| and while it can be used to help companies make a | | | | know most are looking already for more ecological |
| profit, it can also be utilised to improve the | | | | ways to continue their practices. We just need to |
| environment, not to destroy it. We should be using | | | | continue and to put more money into constant |
| our technology to reduce the damage while still | | | | improvement. |
| extracting everything we need. In fact any smart | | | | |