Going Back To A Simpler

I Drive Old Cars, All My Patagonia Clothes Are Years And Years Old, I Hardly Have Anything New. I Try To Lead A Very Simple Life. I Am Not A Consumer Of Anything. And I Much Prefer Sleeping On Somebody's Floor Than In A Motel Room.

I Believe The Accepted Model Of Capitalism That Demands Endless Growth Deserves The Blame For The Destruction Of Nature, And It Should Be Displaced. Failing That, I Try To Work With Those Companies And Help Them Change The Way They Think About Our Resources.

Climbing For Speed Records Will Probably Become More Popular, A Mania Which Has Just Begun. Climbers Climb Not Just To See How Fast And Efficiently They Can Do It, But Far Worse, To See How Much Faster And More Efficiently They Are Than A Party Which Did The Same Climb A Few Days Before. The Climb Becomes Secondary, No More Important Than A Racetrack. Man Is Pitted Against Man.

No Young Kid Growing Up Dreams Of Someday Becoming A Businessman. He Wants To Be A Fireman, A Sponsored Athlete Or A Forest Ranger The Lee Iacoccas, Donald Trumps, And Jack Welchs Of The Business World Are Heroes To No One Except Other Businessmen With Similar Values.

So All Of These Companies That Are Going For The Big Growth, If It Continues For Any Length Of Time, Will Outlast Their Resources And Outlast Their Customers And Go Belly-up. And That's Why These Huge Companies Have Massive Layoffs All The Time.