Quoting Donella Meadows: > The world can respond in three ways to signals that resource use and pollution emissions have gone beyond their sustainable limits.

Quoting Donella Meadows: > The world can respond in three ways to signals that resource use and pollution emissions have gone beyond their sustainable limits. One way is to disguise, deny, or confuse the signals. Generally this takes the form of efforts to shift costs to those who are far away in space and time. > A second way is to alleviate the pressures from limits by employ- ing technical or economic fixes. [...] These approaches, however, will not eliminate the causes of these pressures. > The third way is to work on the underlying causes, to recognize that the socioeconomic system has overshot its limits, is headed toward collapse, and therefore seek to change the structure of the system. Leaving the hard decisions to "future problem solvers" is exactly response #1, "shift costs to those who are far away in space and time", i.e. future generations. http://donellameadows.org/archives/a-synopsis-limits-to-growth-the-30-year-update/ http://donellameadows.org/archives/a-synopsis-limits-to-grow...