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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: energyplay who wrote (65392)6/23/2005 5:43:42 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Re: And we need such reform urgently if Europe is to grow. "

Here is where the basic irrationality comes into view. There is overwhelming evidence that the corporations are grotesquely overshooting the capacity of the planet to provide sustainable resources for humanity's gluttony, and yet we have mindless zombies like Tony Blair proselytizing for "growth". He might as well be selling cancer. Which in a way he is.

It's time to get real about our water planet Earth.

The United Nations Environmental Programme has just produced a wonderful coffetable book of pictures showing the transformation of the planet in the past 30 years. The changes are stunning, and a bit unnerving. The rate of destruction of our natural environment is increasing at the same geometric rate as the growth of human population. The question is whether or not we have already overshot the carrying capacity of the planet.

unep.org

In view of the changes man has wrought on the planet in the past 30 years, calls for more growth seem, quite frankly, insane.
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