Duh! It drives me to drink. Exactly, what we need is birth control not more consumption. Boy, talk about missing the point-lol.
Look at the oceans for gods sake. We cannot keep putting garbage in them. What, we are going to keep doing what we are doing for the next 1,000 years? We have practically denuded, and polluted the entire planet.
And most of "civilzation" is still behaving like the highly functioning animals they are. Imagine giving chimps nuclear weapons. That is what we have done, so what are our chances of survival.
If you have identified intelligence I have missed, clue me in.
Are We Yeast in a Wine Vat? Reflections on Sustainability
by Dan Bednarz
From Bill O’Reilly to Bill Moyers there is consensus that a return to growth is the remedy for what they see as an economic recession. Their political divisions arise over how to rekindle demand and consumption, with the right favoring a market led recovery and the left typically advocating massive government stimulus spending.
Were I to meet O’Reilly or Moyers I would ask, “Since we live on a finite planet, with finite resources, why is economic growth the solution and not the source of our dilemmas?” The failure of media, political, educational, scientific, and cultural leaders to consider this question illustrates what Joseph Campbell calls the power of myth. Questioning growth is at odds with our faith in the American Dream, whose main promise is that future generations are entitled to a higher material standard of living than their parents enjoyed |
