Tell the G20: infinite economic growth on a finite planet is not possible.

We cannot keep net increasing by 227,000 more people per day

If economies keep growing...isn't there a ceiling limit to such growths?

Economists must start to understand that there are environmental constraints, and that quality of life, rather than perpetual GDP growth, should be the end towards which we are aiming.

As a software engineer I'm required to come up with creative solutions to tough problems all the time. I would get fired if all I said at work was "just restart your computer". But how come economist keep saying the old "keep growing the economy:". No! Stop being lazy and come up with a new and innovative solution to our economic problems.

We must live in harmony with the resources of this planet, not continue along our current path of destruction.

Anyone who thinks that continual growth in a finite system is possible is either a madman or an economist.

The need is to keep hammering this message until politicians begin to realise there are votesin promoting sustainability, including sensible population policy and a steady state economy. economy

Wake up! time is running out!

Over population is the fundamental problem underlying our most difficult decisions. If we do not reduce the birth rate we shall die of starvation, war or disease. All more unpleasant than reducing the birth rate

Anyone with doubts about the necessity for this change should read http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/limits-to-growth-was-right-new-research-shows-were-nearing-collapse

Growth can only be in quality, not in quantity. A steady state is possible - and essential

Just what the human race need to make it through to the 22nd century - otherwise we will almost certainly become extinct!

Humankind is the greatest threat to the survival of planet earth. We refuse to regulate our population to ensure the sustainability of the planet. We are destroying natural eco-systems and wiping out whole species. because of overpopulation and bad husbanding previously fertile tracts of the world have been reduced to desert. yet we are persisting to try to farm land that is not designed for intensive farming practices in order to feed human inhabitants. It is time that world organisations called a halt to population growth & begin to repair the damge caused by the past couple of centuries to enable the world's inhabitants to live without fear of famine & starvation.

The world is too crowded already and this idea of eternal growth must be dropped.

Regardless of where anyone stands on the climate change debate the fact is we are destroying air quality across the planet. All we have to do is look at areas like Beijing during the 2008 olympics and its attempts to control excessive smog levels. As long as we continue to ignore excessive growth, production, and expansion as a problem we are deceiving ourselves.

It's utterly as important today as it will be tomorrow when we will have to pay the price for our indulgence via the unfettered "Growth Economy."

Have posted this to Aus PM and many msm journos, see at : https://reduceimmigration.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/sign-the-steadystateecon-petition-to-the-leaders-summit-g20turkey2015/

Either the economy must change or the laws of physics must change. There will be a think tank somewhere working on the laws of physics, but in the mean time we should change to a steady state economic system. Go CASSE.

It is blindingly obvious that infinite growth is not possible on a finite planet and it is time our political classes and finance elites acknowledge this and start to mitigation processes.

The demands that climate change put on our economy, production, and lifestyle are non-negotiable. Therefore, reach an agreement accordingly.