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.'

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