“…While economies grow, social justice is unnecessary, as lives can be improved without redistribution… But, like the bankers, we stave off trouble today only by multiplying it tomorrow. Through economic growth we are borrowing time at punitive rates of interest… Even if we manage to prevent climate breakdown, growth means that it’s only a matter of time before we hit a new constraint, which demands a new global response: oil, water, phosphate, soil. We will lurch from crisis to existential crisis unless we address the underlying cause: perpetual growth cannot be accommodated on a finite planet…”
Read more…an excellent article…
December 15, 2009
This is bigger than climate change. It is a battle to redefine humanity.