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I am working in what is an obscure corner of econ-business education around sustainability. If the following statement is true (is it?) then why isn't it better understood - surely it is very important to prospects of any form of ecologically sustainable economy? Or for that matter to prospects for the world economy now and into the future - given the size of the financial economy “In the present money system we are faced with a dire choice: either economic of ecological collapse. Ecological collapse happens because we are forced to bring more and more natural resources into the money economy and make it grow exponentially, following the pathological growth of the money system. Only if the public and private debts increase can the economy keep growing. If the debt stopped increasing or even if its rate of increase declined then the economy would collapse.” Prof Margrit Kennedy I have drafted a booklet with a couple of activities for 14-19yr olds but really need some feedback [although I have been in curriculum development for 15 yrs!] I want to contrast results obtained with the payment of interest on money with an example of an alternative proposal which goes by the name of 'demurrage', or negative interest. (Silvio Gesell) It was all the rage in the 1930s depression...! If this a mad/irrelevent/blindingly obvious area to work in, that feedback would also be helpful Ken Webster ********************* * TO LEAVE THE LIST * ********************* Write to [log in to unmask] and, in the text of your message (NOT the subject line), write: SIGNOFF ECON-BUSINESS-EDUCATORS