Comment 33274

By steady-state (anonymous) | Posted September 08, 2009 at 12:22:53

This article tries to make a point but is way off the mark. When are we going to stop pussyfooting around with the situation and face the reality? To have a population of 6 billion people living a North American lifestyle, we would need ten more planets the size of Earth.

So we have now 1 billion people living in relative comfort while 5 billion live in relative misery. Or would we rather have 6 billion living in less misery? The purveyors of the current growth oriented economy would rather choose the former. Of course, they would also decide who are the ones living in comfort.

We have already overshot the Earth's carrying capacity by a long shot!

Peak oil and climate change are not probabilities.

Peak oil is inevitable. Climate change will occur unless we have dramatic change and that change is inevitable. The change will occur because ZPG and the economy (ZEG) are intertwined. Population will collapse and with it will go the economy. Humans can manipulate the economy but they cannot alter the physical limits of the planet.

Wake up folks!

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