Jessica emailed a link to an opinion piece by Thomas Friedman at the New York Times.
A small part follows:
Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.”
We can’t do this anymore.
“We created a way of raising standards of living that we can’t possibly pass on to our children,” said Joe Romm, a physicist and climate expert who writes the indispensable blog climateprogress.org. We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks — water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land — and not by generating renewable flows.
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Smaller bites, please. Agree? Disagree?
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3 comments:
Absolutely agree. It's nice to see something like this in a paper like the NY Times.
AGREE. We are the most glutinous, piggish, inhabitants of this planet yet. Wasteful. Soooo wasteful. We've learned nothing from our ancient societies, taken nothing in to our subconsciousness and now we're screwed. Or at least our future generations are screwed if we can't pull out of this.
Hi Theresa,
Freidman's article hit several nails on their heads. I may quote from it again.
And Sheila's last sentence is spot on; "our future generations are screwed if we can't pull out of this."
I think grandson Ollie (age 2.3 yrs.) and I will need to have some long talks together in 10 - 15 years.
keep well,
GAH
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