Abundance vs. Scarcity

• phosphorus mines are running out vs. the phosphorus hasn't gone anywhere
• food needed vs wasted food
  • fact: 40% of food goes wasted, and less than 40% of people go hungry
  • fact: hunger is a distribution issue, not a production issue
  • fact: hunger kills more than 11 million people a year. it's a pandemic.
• water needed vs wasted water
  • fact:
• tech progress vs wellbeing decline
  • story: as technocapitalism has become our new religion, folks feel less well
  • fact: nearly 50% of US children are diagnosed with a chronic disorder or disease
  • fact: there are more smartphones than people in the world
  • fact: billions of people do not have internet or smartphones. many of them are happy.
• more ecological exploration/discovery vs less varieties of life surviving
  • fact: species of life are being wiped out at an accelerating rate these days
  • fact: the Tao is not the name Tao
• less extracted energy => more overall activity?