Sentences with phrase «economies on a finite planet»

To what extremes are we willing to go, to fit more and more people and bigger and bigger economies on a finite planet?

Not exact matches

If we are to pull out of the suicide - pact fantasy economy of perpetual, exponential growth on a finite planet, it's time to grow up and move on.

by Deborah McNamara on January 30, 2014 1 Dan O'Neill economic solutions Enough is Enough finite growth people and planet Rob Dietz sustainable economy

In the end, a balance will be needed, involving savings and commerce, if there is a chance of developing economies that function for the long haul, and that can fit on a finite planet.

# 298 — «I find it interesting that the thing you can least imagine happening is a commitment to degrowth, even though that essentially is just a commitment to words (rather than massive infrastructure buildouts required for a major ramp up of alternatives); and to imagining an economy that can actually be potentially sustained long term on a finite planet.»

Our generation of elders appears to be doing a woefully inadequate job of helping our children understand that the current, relentless, business - as - usual effort to grow the global economy, given the gigantic scale and anticipated growth rate of the economic globalization, could soon become patently unsustainable on a small, finite planet with the size and make - up of Earth.

But this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can't grow forever.

The best we can do at present is regulatory constraint on this or that as they come up, but as the exponential economy hits the ceiling of the finite planet, an ever greater number of such constraints become necessary.

It is true that the coming years won't be pleasant, as our society and economy hits the wall and then realigns around what was always an obvious reality: You can not have infinite growth on a finite planet.

I have no great opinion of economists — it is my theory, knowing economists» unshakable faith in our ever expanding economy, their resolute conviction in our perpetual enrichment and their miraculous ability to plunder never ending resources from a finite planet, that the person who chopped down the last tree on Easter Island was indeed an economist.