Pachamama and endless growth.

This is a wall of one of the buildings of the Museo Pachamama, in Argentina. It is an astonishing, remarkable, delightful, fascinating, beautiful place created by a family with talent and money to go begging, so to speak. I wouldn't have missed seeing this place for the world, but it is a long way from anywhere, and should we travel addicts really indulge our passion for wandering to the distant corners of the earth to see and sense the wonders? Well, yes. We should. No justification for that. I don't consume a heck of a lot in my day to day life. I should have a few carbon credits available.

Today at the Zendo there was a man who is getting a PhD in Business. How curious, I thought, a business major at an American Zendo. But it turned out his thesis and center of study is the need for development of sustainable, responsible business models, dare I say it not currency based. Not based on 'growth' or ever increasing consumption of commodities and irreplacable resources. He says such ideas are rare, but surely at some point in the future people are going to have to open their eyes to the fact that the old growth based models for business have to go out the window. I don't know. Maybe not. Hey! Wait! Yeah I get it! Technology will save us! We can all just go on consuming and growing for ever and every person on this earth will prosper and his children down through the generations, growing and prospering and growing and prospering er could you move over a bit get your elbow out of my eye hey it's my turn to breathe and my turn for a mouthful of artificial water.......