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There will be 9 billion people on this finite planet by 2025 and if EVERY ONE of them will have the expectation of MANY Great - great grandchildren to post letters to, then we are ALL in deep dino doo doo.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ 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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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(It'd be great to have a bracketing talk by Ramez Naam, the author of «The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.»)
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:
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.»
Below there's more background on the song and the video, shot by Craig Duff for The Times, along with some reflections on the shifting meaning of security on a shrinking, finite planet.
«On a finite planet, at human carrying capacity, a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.»
But this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can't grow forever.
By uncritically supporting these policies, we are unwittingly perpetuating the neoliberal fantasy of infinite growth on a finite planet.