The most recent data on human use of biocapacity sends a number of unfortunate signals for believers in the possibility of unrestrained growth. Our global ecological footprint is growing, further overshooting what the biosphere can provide and absorb, and in the process, like two trains heading in opposite directions, we appear to be actually shrinking the available biocapacity on which we depend.
in the time remaining, to help us understand how the man-made system of capitalism will lead to the extinction of our human species, and so many others.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Growth isn't Possible (an excerpt)
An NEF (The New Economics Foundation) article from Energy Bulletin website. This article supports my view that the capitalist system which depends upon unlimited growth is on a collision course with the natural systems of our planet.