In this week's Off The Cuff podcast, Chris talks about:
- Our Ecological Budget Is In The Red
- Our short-sightedness is dooming us
- Our Economic Budget Is In Similar Danger
- Again, we are living way above our means
- Politically, We're Stumbling Badly, Too
- North Korea, Russia, Syria, domestically…the list is long
- We Can Do Better
- There are plenty of better models out there, if we look for them
Recording from vacation on a small island in Maine with no power, this is different than our standard Off The Cuff. Chris takes time to reflect on the repercussions of our poor policy choices and how those are manifesting in the world. What makes our mistakes so regrettable in his eyes is that there are clear ways to do things better — we don't need new magical solutions to appear; there are models that work right on the table, ready for use; if only we're bold enough to embrace change:
What we desperately, desperately need to do is to wake up to the reality of the world as it actually is today. Not as it was 100 years ago, not as it was 50 years ago or even 10 years ago.
We’re at a really sharp corner in this road; we either figure out how to live within the budgets that exist around us, or we crash — badly.
by cmartenson 
