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The world can deliver sudden and nasty shocks. Economies can crash, fisheries can collapse, and climates can pass tipping points.

Slow Money is a market-based solution which seeks nothing less than to overhaul the way we relate to our world through money. "Instead of venture capital bankrolling far flung high tech start-ups, Tasch hopes to see 'nurture capital' funding local merchants and producers who, in turn, plug half of their profits back into their communities, ensuring one small local virtuous circle that values soil fertility, carrying capacity, a sense of place, care of the commons, diversity...and economic health as much as financial return."