The response of the residents of Hobart to the "Black Lives Matter" signs, their compulsion to angrily shout "All Lives Matter," is born of a deeply rooted capitalist mindset, a mindset of pervasive and chronic scarcity, a zero-sum game mindset where more for you necessarily means less for me.
In The Race for What's Left -- a book displaying his stunning knowledge of drilling and mining techniques, obscure minerals, geology, and remote regions of the world -- Klare argues that "the world is entering an era of pervasive, unprecedented resource scarcity".
Her research uncovers a shift in social climate, which Brown names a culture of scarcity, a pervasive sense that there is never enough – money, time, opportunities, rewards, sleep… People never feel good enough, thin enough, smart enough, successful enough.
Hearing the stories, briefly experiencing the rough exposure of poverty and the inescapable awareness that the diary of violence and this chronicle of scarcity is so pervasive in the world set up an inescapable tension -- and a challenge.
But given the poor quality of care, scarcity of equipment and pervasive graft that still defines most government hospitals, "discharge or transfer" can look a lot like abandonment.
In contrast to this apparent spectrum scarcity has been the pervasive existence of spectrum opportunity as extensive measurements indicate that, at any given time and location, a large portion of licensed spectrum lies unused [2].
The scarcity of serious critique of sustainability may simply reflect a pervasive endorsement of both the ideals and the practical implications of this notion.
How do we value 'things' when knowledge is pervasive, when money is digital, and when you can no longer protect an idea or concept legally because information scarcity no longer applies?
Prices reflect that scarcity.
Scarcity forces prices up.
