Tell the G20: infinite economic growth on a finite planet is not possible.
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Dick Smith
10 years ago
We cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet - as David Suzuki says on his U-tube clip “One Minute to Midnight” - it's not speculation or hypothesis, our demand for endless growth is taking us down a suicidal path.
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Maureen Barnett
10 years ago
There is no alternative.
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marguerite dale
10 years ago
Encourage and invest in renewable energy!
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kanaan bausler
10 years ago
necessary
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Michael Jessen
10 years ago
We in the developed world need to cut back on our consumption by 80% and we need to start now.
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Fred Tromp
10 years ago
It is crucial that the G20 start preparing the world of an end to mindless growth
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Björn Lindgren
10 years ago
Let's with a minimum of effort realize a maximum of satisfaction and joy!
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Martin Hughes
11 years ago
This is urgent. Economic grow cannot continue indefinitely with finite planetary resources.
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Chris Andrews
11 years ago
No issue that our global society faces is more important than creating a steady-state economy, because almost no other problem can solved without doing so.
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Mark Facer
11 years ago
By all means grow our economy with high value services, but material use and energy from carbon sources must be rapidly decreased. Can our leaders grasp this?
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Giancarlo
11 years ago
One of the greatest problems we inherited is a model based on constant growth assumption. I think the biggest lack in economics as a discipline, is a general failure to embed cyclical or steady-state models.
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uwe thomas
11 years ago
for a better world!!
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Reference T
11 years ago
The consumption function is probably a nonconvergent series. Thus steady state is necessary else things is going to fell apart very quickly
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Helga Burry
11 years ago
The rate at which we are using the world's resources to become richer in material goods is unprecedented. It is time we had leadership to develop a way to live more simply, and to change the way we treat our beautiful earth and all its creatures and plants.
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Karen Joynes
11 years ago
For the future of all life on our planet.
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Anthony Gleeson
11 years ago
The longer it takes us to make the necessary changes, the bigger those changes will be
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Anthony Gleeson
11 years ago
The longer it takes us to make the necessary changes, the bigger those changes will be
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Lise Carr
11 years ago
Cancer is growth-stop it now.
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Stephan Bourget
11 years ago
A paradigm shift is required if we are to survive our own insanity. This should have already occured yesterday, yet officials act as if there were no urgency in the house. Time to wake up, earthlings.
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Simon Barton
11 years ago
We need a new breed of economists and politicians ,who accept basic facts and will direct their commentary and efforts to a sustainable human society, in which other species also have a place.
We cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet - as David Suzuki says on his U-tube clip “One Minute to Midnight” - it's not speculation or hypothesis, our demand for endless growth is taking us down a suicidal path.
There is no alternative.
Encourage and invest in renewable energy!
necessary
We in the developed world need to cut back on our consumption by 80% and we need to start now.
It is crucial that the G20 start preparing the world of an end to mindless growth
Let's with a minimum of effort realize a maximum of satisfaction and joy!
This is urgent. Economic grow cannot continue indefinitely with finite planetary resources.
No issue that our global society faces is more important than creating a steady-state economy, because almost no other problem can solved without doing so.
By all means grow our economy with high value services, but material use and energy from carbon sources must be rapidly decreased. Can our leaders grasp this?
One of the greatest problems we inherited is a model based on constant growth assumption. I think the biggest lack in economics as a discipline, is a general failure to embed cyclical or steady-state models.
for a better world!!
The consumption function is probably a nonconvergent series. Thus steady state is necessary else things is going to fell apart very quickly
The rate at which we are using the world's resources to become richer in material goods is unprecedented. It is time we had leadership to develop a way to live more simply, and to change the way we treat our beautiful earth and all its creatures and plants.
For the future of all life on our planet.
The longer it takes us to make the necessary changes, the bigger those changes will be
The longer it takes us to make the necessary changes, the bigger those changes will be
Cancer is growth-stop it now.
A paradigm shift is required if we are to survive our own insanity. This should have already occured yesterday, yet officials act as if there were no urgency in the house. Time to wake up, earthlings.
We need a new breed of economists and politicians ,who accept basic facts and will direct their commentary and efforts to a sustainable human society, in which other species also have a place.