CAP’s real goal is to curb our food overproduction

There is a subliminal message in the CAP argument. CAP is to control and restrain agricultural production; it is to be replicated by programmes to control and restrain all other forms of production.

That is why the Commission is adamant about flattening-out farm payments; they must not, under any circumstances, encourage increased production. Agricultural production cannot be allowed to grow as it produces twice what is needed to feed the human race.

Growth in economics is no longer needed or possible. But the philosophy used to extricate society from this period of great economic insecurity is based on securing growth, the goal since the dawn of economic activity. There is no contingency plan for the demise of growth and that is why the crisis worsens.