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The article is a fascinating exploration of the basic question at the heart of Dot Earth: can humanity's infinite aspirations fit on a finite planet as our numbers and appetites crest.

Not exact matches

Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

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.

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.

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.

Let us consider that it could become dangerous to life as know it on Earth for the human community much longer to pursue the prized «business as usual» course of the predominant culture: unbridled overproduction, unrestrained overconsumption and unchecked overpopulation because, when these distinctly human activities are taken together, an overpowering force of nature exists that could become unsustainable on the relatively small, evident finite, noticeably frangible planet God blesses us to inhabit and steward, and surely not to overwhelm.

But it certainly doesn't hurt to try, given the extraordinary gulfs on the planet now between haves and have nots, the signs that business as usual will be hard to fit on a finite, increasingly human - shaped planet and the fast - expanding capacity to share and shape ideas in ways that smooth the human journey.

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.

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 approacOn 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 approacon a finite planet and, for those who comment here, trying to maintain a constructive approach.

Dot Earth began five years and 2,000 posts ago as an open exploration of ways to smooth the human journey in a fast - motion century on a finite planet.

With appropriate guidance, students can not only develop story - and idea - sharing skills that mesh written and audiovisual output, but put those skills to use even as they learn, potentially playing a role in fostering progress on a finite planet.

Alternatively, we could describe climate change as one aspect of a system of human growth (in population, energy use, resource use, economic activity, etc) and the many ways in which that growth is constrained on a finite planet.

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.

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.

I encourage you to slow down, too, and to celebrate this remarkable moment in our history as a species, as we slowly come to grips with the predicament of trying to mesh infinite aspirations with life on a finite planet.

A quick photographic Earth Day note: Even as societies ponder how to smooth the human journey on a finite planet at the global scale, it doesn't hurt to try to get things reasonably right in our own neighborhoods.

The piece focused on Will Wright, the mind behind Spore and The Sims, and solicited questions for Wright as well as others» views on the notion that virtual experiences can help fit infinite human aspirations on a finite planet.

12:33 p.m. Update I just noticed that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has just posted a talk I gave there recently that I summarized as «an optimistic, but realistic, exploration of ways in which universities can fill gaps left by shrinking media and strangled budgets, and foster progress on a finite planet.»

That does seem to be a natural, and necessary, transition as we head toward 9 billion people on a finite planet.

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The combination of these factors is likely to have far reaching and long - lasting consequences for our finite planet and will impact on future generations as well as our own.

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.

Anyone who still clings to the notion that maintaining the «Business as Usual» automobile centric paradigm in which it is necessary for a single occupant to be esconced in a 3000 lb steel shell to travel from point A to point B doesn't yet understand the full implications of physical limits on a finite planet containing 7 billion plus Homo idioticus.

Remember, we live on a «finite planet», which means there is no such thing as «sustainable long term growth».