[While the jury is still out as to whether the necessary changes can be brought about successfully within the capitalist model, at least the sentiment about what is worthy of so-called 'investment' (sic) is pointing in the right direction. - Christian]
by Woody Tasch
Foreword by Slow Food Founder Carlo Petrini
Review published in the May/June 2009 issue of Orion magazine
THE AMERICAN ECONOMY was built not for stability, but rather for appetite and yearning. The corporation, the money system—our basic institutions are rootless, placeless, and encoded solely for financial gain. Every new dollar that enters the economy comes laden with interest, which becomes a silent taskmaster that drives the machinery at an ever more frantic pace.
As Woody Tasch points out in his new book, the financial system is out of sync with the natural system. The algorithms of finance are oblivious to what the rhythms of nature can support, and the relentless quest for yield is exhausting the substrate of the entire system. “As financial time contracts,” Tasch asks, “how can we maintain a healthy relation with natural time?”
