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We have only one planet. We already use up more resources than it has. More economic growth equals destruction on a planetary level.
by onreact-com 17y ago
We have only one planet. We already use up more resources than it has. More economic growth equals destruction on a planetary level.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agodestruction on a planetary level Surely you can't believe the planet itself is going to explode or something, can you? I mean, what you're really saying is that more growth will make the planet into a state that you find offensive and hard to live with -- dirty skies, polluted water, etc. If that's the case then I'm with you. Glad to talk about how clean we want to make things and what kind of rules we want to put on ourselves so the world meets our ascetic approval. (offline, of course) I don't think you believe the planet itself is going to be destroyed. Life will continue, right? It'll just get ugly and uninhabitable for poor people -- which is not an acceptable option, by the way, but it's not destruction. Or are you somewhere in the middle, thinking that somehow the planet will manage to kill just us and the rest of the ecosystem (or what's left of it) will continue? When you use words like that, you really still need to explain yourself some more. I'm just grasping at straws here.
- pg 17y agoHardly. One form of economic growth is increased efficiency.
- neva 17y agoWhich will hardly be able to cope with the looming scarcity of resources, considering the numbers of population growth rate.
- netsp 17y agoThat's rubbish. Economic growth is not simply more of the same. The next 20% will not be like the last. The 20% before that was also different. If we can get twice as far on a litre of petrol with no other costs (worse car, etc.) that is economic growth.