Excerpt from full article @ The Ecologist, 11 August 2009
'The UK will need to radically change the way food is produced and processed over the coming decades, according to Defra.
Outlining its vision for the UK's food system in 2030, Defra minister Hilary Benn said we needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve water efficiency and ensure people have access to healthy, safe and affordable food.'
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14 August 2009
Consumerism is Eating the Future
Excerpt from full article @ New Scientist, 7 August 2009
'Although we like to think of ourselves as civilised thinkers, we're subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion. This is an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.The problem with that, according to Rees and Hern, is that it fails to recognise that the physical resources to fuel this growth are finite.
"We're still driven by growing and expanding, so we will use up all the oil, we will use up all the coal, and we will keep going till we fill the Petri dish and pollute ourselves out of existence," he says.'
'Although we like to think of ourselves as civilised thinkers, we're subconsciously still driven by an impulse for survival, domination and expansion. This is an impulse which now finds expression in the idea that inexorable economic growth is the answer to everything, and, given time, will redress all the world's existing inequalities.The problem with that, according to Rees and Hern, is that it fails to recognise that the physical resources to fuel this growth are finite.
"We're still driven by growing and expanding, so we will use up all the oil, we will use up all the coal, and we will keep going till we fill the Petri dish and pollute ourselves out of existence," he says.'
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