Aforementioned: aphorisms and questions for 2014

Pay no attention to economists: 100s of trillions to fix the crisis of the biosphere? Et alors? Everything dies because it’s too costly?   The pronouncements of economists these day have an odd feel to them. One has the sense that they think that we might save money by addressing now the problems that come with global warming, but that they can calculate the added cost if we choose to go on as we have been in the pursuit of economic growth. This is pernicious. Money is irrelevant, as it was when we faced international Fascism?