Shortages damage urban areas

Usage examples of scarcities.

Each interior development that we will be following is, of course, governed by the twenty tenets (though not by those alone), and thus each development involves a new and creative emergence, a new transcendence, a new depth, a new interiority, a new differentiation/integration, a greater degree of relative autonomy (greater capacity for both agency and for communion), a greater degree of consciousness, a greater total embracewith new fears, new anxieties, new needs, new scarcities, new desires, new moral engagements in new shared worldviews, and the ever-present possibility of new and higher pathologies and distortions.

When we berate the Chinese, Indonesians, and others for doing likewise, they naturally see a double standard, though as the world’s population quadrupled since the nineteenth century and resource scarcities are thus more severe, the environmental costs of such unplanned and antiquated development are no longer as easily afforded.

We are taking a huge gamble if we follow the path they suggest, which is to wait till scarcities are critical and watch human ingenuity burst forth in response.

The scarcities, inflation, taxes, and profiteering, the incessant worries and enmities of war, were all ever-present.