Comments on: Why don’t we pick the low-hanging fruit? http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/04/16/why-dont-we-pick-the-low-hanging-fruit/ This blog is about the impact of business on society. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gregg Dart http://www.marcgunther.com/2009/04/16/why-dont-we-pick-the-low-hanging-fruit/comment-page-1/#comment-148320 Gregg Dart Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:13:27 +0000 http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=646#comment-148320 Marc, 4/22/2009 Happy Earth Day. Your essay on the 'low hanging fruit' reminded me of Jared Diamond's GUNS, GERMS & STEEL. He surveyed several thousand years of human occupancy of planet Earth and looked at why some cultures seemed to have all the "cargo." His follow up work, COLLAPSE, is an even more specific (and dramatic) description of NOT over-picking low hanging fruit. It seems like the models we have been accustomed to in the United States of America are reverting quickly back to the 'Victory Garden' days. Already, China is the country with the largest vehicle market in the world. What is now the Lingua Franca, English (an irony in itself: Latin gave way to French; French to English) may yet become Mandarin in our lifetimes. You wish for a new metaphor. Our inability to capitalize on available, low cost, high value methods and materials may require a new planet. Marc, 4/22/2009
Happy Earth Day.
Your essay on the ‘low hanging fruit’ reminded me of Jared Diamond’s GUNS, GERMS & STEEL. He surveyed several thousand years of human occupancy of planet Earth and looked at why some cultures seemed to have all the “cargo.”
His follow up work, COLLAPSE, is an even more specific (and dramatic) description of NOT over-picking low hanging fruit.
It seems like the models we have been accustomed to in the United States of America are reverting quickly back to the ‘Victory Garden’ days. Already, China is the country with the largest vehicle market in the world. What is now the Lingua Franca, English (an irony in itself: Latin gave way to French; French to English) may yet become Mandarin in our lifetimes.
You wish for a new metaphor. Our inability to capitalize on available, low cost, high value methods and materials may require a new planet.

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