THE NEED FOR CHANGE

• As Einstein suggested, in order to solve a problem we have to leave the framework within which we created the problem, we have to study our new system, its conditions, and based on our examinations we have to create a totally new human system.
     
• History is replete with instances where crises had always been converted into opening new vistas for viable solutions.
     
• Interesting to see that most of people acknowledge the crisis situation and some of them hope that through some miracle, or the cyclical nature of crisis situations we will simply pull through. But simply waiting for cyclical revival or some miracle growth will not help us but will make our future attempts much more difficult.
     
• Only swift and sustained recovery can stem the rise in the human cost of economic stagnation.
      
• We need to shift the public perceptions from pessimism and concern about the future to an optimistic mindset of growth and stability. We need resolute action to address the uncertainty confronting the global crises and to chart a path toward self-sustaining recovery.
      
• We need a  “roadmap” restore momentum.
      
• The global economy in 2013 could be a very difficult environment in which to find shelter.
   
• "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." (Voltaire, French philosopher)
     
• We built our lifestyle on infinite quantitative growth without restrictions of resources,  all which turned out to be false and illusory. Wouldn't we all much prefer some thinking out-of-the-box, to build a new system?
     
• It's not the end of the world, but a new beginning.
     
• The economy does not work like engineering systems where the system is controlled through a negative-feedback (eg. a regular car has tens or hundreds of such negative feed-backs).  When a global crisis occurs (resource limitation/demand/deficit), the built-in positive feedback of the economic system is spiraling down the whole economy.  We need a  different thinking:  an engineering way of thinking not an 'economist' way of thinking.
      
• Let's look on the bright side: a collapse in the economy may be just what is needed to place the focus where it belongs, on adjusting our lives to the reality:  we need a sustained ecosystem with less impact on climate change, sustained energy, less pollution or fuel consumption, more family and leisure time, secured lifestyle and jobs.  There is no law against these.  You can maximize them at infinite.
     
• The good news is that addressing these long-term problems would actually help to solve the short-term problems like our economic crisis. Increased investment to retrofit the economy would help to stimulate economic activity, growth, and job creation.
     
• We need to advance an agenda that would address the underlying ills.

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             ( Thanks to Project-Syndicate for their permission to reuse some ideas and quotes from their website )