(Doug Miller) writes:


[...]

I was responding to Dr. Hannappel's somewhat skewed view of the value of
American economic growth to the rest of the world. It was American economic

I am not so much considering American economic growth, on our small
planet we should always consider all of the planet and all of the
people. Of course America as leader in economics (and waste of energy)
and influencing the way we think everywhere is the single most
important country if something is to change.



growth that enabled the United States to defeat the Axis powers in WWII; it
was American economic growth that enabled the United States to fight, and win,
the Cold War - and I didn't even mention the Marshall Plan (also fueled by
American economic growth).

True. Economic growth worked and enabled a vast array of very good
things. I do not deny that. I just say that it can't go on like this
forever, and the less we plan for the era after the growth the worse
it will hit.

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