Sentences with phrase «going on a finite planet»

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After all, the thinking goes, in the long run humanity's spiking numbers and appetites are bound to hit a wall on a planet with finite resources and a limited capacity to absorb our effluents.

With the 704th post on this exploration of ways to mesh infinite human aspirations with life on a finite planet, I'm taking a break to pick some backyard blackberries (video above; watch in HD mode), go camping on a beach in eastern Long Island and «review the bidding,» as my colleague and friend Cornelia Dean likes to say.

One imperative, going forward, was nicely captured by David Roberts of Grist in a Twitter riff earlier this week that, despite our differences on how to address the buildup of greenhouse gases, resonates powerfully with my views on how to foster progress on a finite, crowding and urbanizing planet:

As long as we live on a finite planet, however, that ain't gonna happen.

Does anyone at all in conventional economics and the broader community realise that growth can not go on forever in a finite land or 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?