THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

Monetary specialists and Greens alike typically see no connection
between the money system and sustainability. What follows will
show that this is an oversight.
The gentlest way to acquaint ourselves with that connection is
through another short fairy tale for my godchild.
The man with the near-seeing glasses
(Fairy tale for Kamir, seven years old)
Once upon a time, in a very near place, there was a man who had
been wearing glasses for so long that he even forgot he had them on.
The main problem, however, was that his glasses, instead of
correcting his vision, were making him so near-sighted that he
couldn't see anything further than his nose.
So he would bump against everybody or everything because they
would always suddenly appear to him without warning, when it was
too late to avoid the obstacle. He was getting worried enough about
me problem that he went to consult a Scientist.
The Scientist listened to the problem carefully, then pulled out a
very thick book about Optics Riled with equations and diagrams.
And he showed him that it was very normal to see better closer-up
than far away. He explained something about the number of light
particles decreasing by the square of the distance from which he saw
them. The Man with the Near-Seeing Glasses did not quite
understand the explanation, but he was very relieved to hear that
there was a scientific reason, which made it all very normal.
So he went on bumping against people, trees, even his own green
front door and everything else which popped up suddenly when he
was hitting them with his nose. After he hit a particularly hard red