Sentences with phrase «finite planet»

There's a bigger question here, though, relating to how humans — as populations grow and grow more prosperous — choose to relate to the other inhabitants of this very finite planet.

Finite planet make us have to adopt fit it economic pattern.

Kenneth Boulding, economist and President Kennedy's Environmental Advisor 1966 (lived 1910 — 1993) «Anyone who believes in indefinite growth of anything physical on a physically finite planet is either a madman or an economist.»

We humans are becoming a danger to ourselves, simply because of our natural capacity to multiply indefinitely on a finite planet.

The picture has become a contemporary ikon, one which images a new vision of human reality — that of a finite planet where life ultimately is life together on a fragile and beautiful Spaceship Earth.

But planning to accommodate a civilisation of 10 billion people on a finite planet can not any longer be left to individual self - interest.

His most recent nonfiction book, on accelerating innovation to overcome environmental and natural resource challenges, is The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.

The signs are that we already have the know - how to live long and prosper without demanding ever more from a finite planet.

Even those who accepted that on a finite planet there must be some limits usually assumed that growth would merely level off as we approached them.

We can not achieve a stable society on a finite planet on the present principle of all consuming as much as we can.

But science says you can't do that on a finite planet.

No sane person can expect indefinite exponential growth on a finite planet.

His works include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, Nexus, Crux, More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement and Apex.

A refutation of Jeremy Grantham from Ramez Naan, author of The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.

The piece is intended as a statement about the idea of infinite economic growth on a finite planet.

Have you guys ever considered, that a sheer profit oriented economic system, guided by an infinite growth paradigm (on a finite planet) will cause more and ever more problems?

Bayer recently made his second trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, and I invited him to contribute a «Your Dot» essay on his views of the event, the limits of brainstorming and the path toward progress that fits on a finite planet.

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I asked a few folks about facets of this, among them Peter Singer, the ethicist at Princeton who's written for ages on animal rights and environmental values on a finite planet.

I have a long list of improvements I want to make to this blog, both to foster productive discourse and tighten the focus on concrete ways to forge progress on a finite planet and avoid the «nerd loop» that, like most circular entities, leads nowhere.

As I've written here before, finding and disseminating education methods that foster creative, collaborative and resilient learning and problem solving is a prime path toward fitting human aspirations on a finite planet.

* The phrase — not heard often in these halls — was just one of many signs of the free - wheeling nature of discussions that unfolded in hopes of charting fresh paths toward durable human advancement on a finite planet.

Whether you embrace Ausubel's technology imperative or seek ways to shift human values and norms to fit infinite aspirations on a finite planet (or both, as I do), a thorough look in the mirror appears worthwhile.

«Creating more for everyone else» is a paean to the notion that economic growth can go on forever on a finite planet.

A recent post, «Growth on a Finite Planet — So Far, So Good,» describing an upbeat report on human development from the United Nations, has elicited a notable response from Lou Gold, an American living near Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, the Brazilian state in the western reaches of the Amazon rain forest where I spent several months back in 1989 reporting on the life and murder of Chico Mendes.

As I put together my recent post on the role of boosted intelligence in meshing infinite human aspirations with a finite planet, it brought to mind a theme that has been tugging at me for years now.

Another keystone to better meshing humanity's infinite aspirations with life on a finite planet will be slowly shifting value systems from the foundation up, not through some Beltway debate.

Read (or watch) his elaboration on this here: «30 Ways to Foster Progress on a Finite Planet.»

The new doctrine resonates with one theme of Dot Earth: a quest for ways to avoid big regrets on the road toward 9 billion people on a finite planet.

Regardless of video viewership, I don't see this approach to activism being a productive way forward on climate and energy, particularly for young people seeking a meaningful role in fostering progress that can fit on a finite planet.

To sustain progress on a finite planet that is increasingly under human sway, but also full of surprises, what is needed is a strong dose of anthropophilia.

How that gets worked out probably will help determine whether there is a relatively smooth journey toward more or less 9 billion people on a finite planet in the next few decades.

There's an awful lot of talk about internalizing externalities as a path to fitting humans» infinite aspirations on a finite planet, but this seems quite hard to carry out in places where this would matter most.

But that line of discourse might — in the long run — chart a more productive path toward human progress on a finite planet.

On Thanksgiving (and Hannukah), here's a quick note — and song — of thanks to you for reading this blog, for attending to the issues and opportunities facing humanity as we come of age on a finite planet and, for those who comment here, trying to maintain a constructive approach.

On a finite planet, where would limitless energy, combined with humanity's infinite aspirations, take us?

But we live on a finite planet: limited resources, limited sinks, limited rates of recovery, limited carrying capacity.

I've been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn - to - ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science - oriented high school students in Houston to discuss energy and innovation and speaking about how new opportunities for globally sharing and shaping insights and information can be a prime route toward sustaining human progress on a finite planet (and on a tight budget).

Here's a little pause, after days focused on numbers (gigawatts of electrical generation, gigatons of emissions, square miles of sea ice), to reflect on the value judgments underlying efforts to mesh boundless human aspirations with life on a finite planet.

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.

With a sustained focus on education and inquiry there's a good chance we'll merely scrape the guardrail before rounding the bend and reaching a more balanced approach to fitting our infinite aspirations on a finite planet.