An as yet unused metric for measuring wealth

Choosing a suitable metric

The thing about our corrupt self serving politicians is their need to continually ‘manufacture’ statistics which ultimately serve their nefarious purpose.

“There are lies, damn lies and statistics”

It seems that the basis of these lies statistics so far have been average income/spend, number of cars, distance to bus stops or some other meaningful measure. Indeed a few years ago the most ‘economically stable thing in the world’ was the price of a Mars Bar, it had been a constant value as a proportion of the average take home pay.

Environmental Awareness

A big half hearted drive at the moment is to be more environmentally friendly, generally this is stuff like greater efficiency, less energy consumption, less CO2 production blah blah blah.

This means that whatever measure we use must take environmental issues into consideration.

So in summary, the new measure will look at a combination of cost and environmental impact and really there is one one candidate that is open to the larger population.

Let me explain. . .

The human race, pre-industrialisation was much more environmentally aware, we worked with wood and stone, see this picture:-

These simple easy to use tools are made of wood (OK made by peasants by hand and sold door-door) but they are totally environmentally friendly.

HOWEVER as we have become more ‘sophisticated’ and industrialised, we have become dependent on dead dinosaurs and metallic rocks. The following shows the effect of that on our humble environmentally friendly peg.

How pretty they are, pretty awful. They are made of petrochemicals and have a metal spring in them. What is the environmental cost of producing them and why can they be bought at Poundland?

The point however, is that the clothes peg has now become an environmental disaster and yet is still not expensive and therefore widely available to the greater populous.

Very much in parallel with the world don’t you think?

Clothes Pegs – THE new measure

There we have it, the humble clothes-peg, of itself an insignificant thing yet it represents environmental destruction because it is made of dinosaur derived materials with mined out and extracted iron ores.

We all have them, we have many some we loose and the wooden ones will decompose naturally, the plastic ones are around forever.

I proudly present the humble Clothes-Peg as the new standard unit of Wealth Measurement.