Sentences with phrase «in a finite world»

It's really important to remember we live in a finite world with myriad system faults occurring simultaneously.

That so many people believe that economic and demographic growth can go on forever in a finite world is a colossal tribute to the failure of our educational system.

We live in a finite world with a limited amount of resources.

But — and here we come to the eighth point — our perfection in this respect is hardly likely to be achieved in this finite world.

Endless growth can not occur in a finite world.

The usual suspect is that capitalism requires growth and perpetual growth is impossible in a finite world.

It is, as I said, a sign that we're living in a finite world, one in which resource constraints are becoming increasingly binding.

Do you think that your above comment is consistent with the following direct quote from the 1980 book Energy in a Finite World published by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA.

More shocking than the overt sexuality of «Better Living Through Design» is its stark contrast between pleasures of the flesh and violence of the body, as captured in the finite world of Reichman's congested apartment.

is its stark contrast between pleasures of the flesh and violence of the body, as captured in the finite world of Reichman's congested apartment.

Infinite growth in a finite world is impossible, growth based on speculative finance is unstable, and since the 1960's, GDP growth and self - reported well - being have been completely uncorrelated phenomena.

Fifth, human destiny is not exhausted by life in this finite world where we live out our days.

The MIT team, it was asserted, had taken the obvious mathematical fact that exponential growth can not continue indefinitely in a finite world.

Revelation faith affirms that God is revealed through finite events in the finite world, but that any linkage between God and concrete historical events is never self - evident.

You do not of course have to resort to a computer model to come to the conclusion that in a finite world exponential economic growth in use of resources will sooner or later lead to collapse.

The entire system characterized by the illusion of an unlimited growth and consumption is not sustainable in a finite world and the economic and social crises we are seeing in the last years are, undoubtedly, worrying signs of crumbling perspectives.

Or, as Woody Allen put it, how is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

The underlying neoclassical assumption that economic growth can go on forever in a finite world contradicts all of our common sense observations.

I am only guessing now you and I agree, given its present gigantic scale, that the endlessly expanding global economy in a finite world with make - up and relatively small size of Earth, will eventually reach a point in history when this leviathan - like, manmade economy produces some kind of unimaginable colossal wreckage.

In this sense it can be seen as the continued playing out of Kant's problem of the untenability of giving free rein to our autonomy in a finite world.

What you said above can be summarized by Kenneth Boulding who said: Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

I disagree about growth; it seems continuous growth in a finite world should be an obvious no brainer impossibility, but of course we have to cater to the power of the resistance, which is nasty and counterproductive.

Foley: Yeah, well, increasingly, economists are recognizing the needs to think about living in a finite world.

Walter Schloss «In a finite world, high growth rates must self - destruct.

«In a finite world, high growth rates must self - destruct.

One lesson from these models is that in a finite world, if you remove or raise one limit and go on growing, you encounter another limit.

So long as a majority of people believe that economic growth can go on forever in a finite world, we will be heading toward a serious collision between an overpopulated and overconsuming global economy and Earth's finite ecosystem.

«What the commodity markets are telling us is that we're living in a finite world, in which the rapid growth of emerging economies is placing pressure on limited supplies of raw materials, pushing up their prices....