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

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.

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.

The will to utterly waste the most important source of finite fuel on the planet; the will not to use it for the creation of renewable energy sources but instead to power our «4 mile commute to work».

Critics of the global system have long been asserting that undirected economic growth on a planet with finite resources and sinks is unsustainable.

Do you really think i would create a religion that says be fruitful and multiply on a planet with finite resources, and make you hate science which is the only way to get off your rock?

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

Resources on our planet are finite and scarce.

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.

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 have finite room on this planet.»

Slated for release in 2013, the new SimCity invites players to grapple with tough choices about energy generation, environmental costs and the responsibilities shouldered by inhabitants of a planet with finite resources — choices faced by real policymakers on the very real planet Earth.

He put it like this: «It seems to me that, if the matter of our sun and planets, and all the matter of the Universe, were evenly scattered throughout all the heavens, and every particle had an innate gravity towards all the rest, and the whole space throughout which this matter was scattered, was finite, the matter on the outside of this space would by its gravity tend towards all the matter on the inside, and by consequence fall down into the middle of the whole space, and there compose one spherical mass.

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

And we've got a finite supply — only a fraction of the water on our planet is drinkable.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Disclosure Note I'm on the Interim Engagement Committee of Future Earth (a voluntary position), which is a new international hub for coordinating interdisciplinary research aimed at fostering sustainable human progress on this finite planet.

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

[At the Climate, Mind and Behavior Conference of the Garrison Institute on Thursday, Clay laid out the logic behind working with big corporations to foster food production that can fit on a finite planet.

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.

Growth on a Finite Planet — So Far, So Good Is recent human progress won on at the cost of sustained well - being?

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Here's my talk, «Building the #Knowosphere: How new ways to share and shape ideas can help build durable progress on a finite planet»:

Despite its limitations, the book provides a stimulating blueprint for fostering progress that can fit on a finite planet.

I hope you'll find the interface a useful step on the journey toward building and sharing constructive online discourse on ways to forge progress on a finite planet.

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We have created a lifestyle that is the envy of the world, emulated almost everywhere, but a growing number of us don't believe that it is sustainable on a finite planet.

Climate change is a subset of the story of our time, which is that we are coming of age on a finite planet and only just now recognizing that it is finite.

# 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.»

I envision more contributions from him here, given how Dot Earth is all about smoothing the path toward more or less 9 billion people on a finite planet.