Earth Investers

I have occasionally wondered what is so controversial about the World Bank. I understand protesters travel from all around Earth to wave placards outside World Bank meetings and I wonder why they are so riled up. After all, it's our Bank. It seems to be investing in worthwhile projects so why pick on economists and bankers and business school makers? Then I read this from Lawrence Summers, pre-millennially of the World Bank, and US. National Economic Council: "There are no limits to the carrying capacity of the earth [sic] that are likely to bind at any time in the foreseeable future. The idea that we should put limits on growth because of some natural limit is a profound error." Here is how a more post-millennial economist, like Charles Eisenstein or Riane Eisler, Anat Shenker-Osorio or John Michael Greer, might change Summer's winterish position: There are nondual natural-spiritual limits to Earth's life-carrying capacity. These are cooperatively binding at all times in the foreseeable future, as in our historic past balance of regeneration and decomposition, rooted in principles of thermodynamic balance. The compelling idea that we should embrace limits on growth with gratitude because of natural-spiritual limits of ecological dynamics is a profound truth of democratic and Earth-patriotic faith, trust in the deeper balancing power of co-operativity over narrow-minded and short-sighted denials of Win to Lose economic anti-ecological competitions for anthro-inflation at Earth's culture of pathology expense. We need ecological economists cooperating our World Bank co-investments; not just pathology economists. Just as we need healthy democratic cooperative public servants in local and state, national and international offices rather than more candidates for Anger Management classes, fearing we won't re-elect them if they don't speak false promises of magically unlimited growth, while the failure of species and subclimates and rivers and oceans and ozone layers and landscapes and shoreline communities and other healthcare-giving systems are clearly already not experiencing continued growth in the foreseeable futures of right now. So, I maybe begin to see why Summer's World Bank history feels so winterish to others. Sadly, I think this is what Bernie Sanders was ranting on about when trying to breathe life into limp democrats. Maybe Van Jones and Riane Eisler would be good healthy team leaders, ("quality people" in Trumpian speak) but they would need a renewed nature-spirit balancing Congress with some ecological economic sense about cooperatively investing within Earth's sustainable limits, grace within gratitude like light leading photosynthesis.