Ignore if you must
climate change, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of water, soil, minerals,
oil; even if all these issues miraculously vanished, the mathematics of
compound growth make continuity impossible.
Economic growth is an
artefact of the use of fossil fuels.
As the volume of the
global economy expands, everywhere that contains something concentrated,
unusual, precious, will be sought out and exploited, its resources extracted
and dispersed, the world's diverse and differentiated marvels reduced to the
same grey stubble.
Efficiency solves
nothing while growth continues.
That's how you measure
the depth of this problem: by our inability even to discuss it.
Read the full article here:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/27/if-we-cant-change-economic-system-our-number-is-up
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