----- Original Message ----- From: "dmschanoes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I don't know if the debate about scarcity can be settled here. ============== Our first understatement of 2004 :-> > But the argument is repeatedly offered that oil is scarce, water is scarce, cities are too large, industrial farming doesn't work, etc. etc., and I think it is essential to clarify the issues and elements surrounding this debate, and flatly oppose certain positions based on assumptions of scarcity. =============== Seems to me the question we need to be asking is *scarce for whom*? For the poor, schools are scarce, medical care is scarce, violence free communities are scarce, housing is scarce, nutritionally beneficial foods are scarce, clean water is scarce, democratic participation is scarce, electricity is scarce etc. etc........ Let's make the polysemy of the concept work *for* our goals. For capital only profits and passive people are scarce.................... Ian
