The number one issue we control is growth. By any calculation if the rest of the planet lived like we do then we would need between three and eight planets. The problem with unsustainability is that it can’t be sustained. The train is running out of track. But at what rate can we continue to grow in a way that is sustainable and perhaps more precisely what bits of the economy can grow – ie the low carbon bits?
A clever and influential person said to me today when we discussed this that they didn’t want a world in which no one could go to university, the theatre or a holiday each year. You get their point. But how much is enough? Will new technology save the day? Tim Jackson has written an intriguing paper here on prosperity without growth. How much of ‘it all’ can we have? As Minister ponder food shortages its about time the discussion began.
(I’m off for a bit. If I find an internet café I will blog when I can. Normal service will resume after the Bank Holiday).
I have now read the SDC’s report and am delighted. Here in less than 100 pages is the best, most balanced treatise of the consumerist problem and the directions in which the solutions will be found to deal with it. I can’t thank you enough for the recommendation. I now find that there is no need to comment any more on the subject. The reasons we are living in an All-Consuming society are abundantly clear, as is the fact that it is all going to end rather sooner than later in a big crunch, whether people like it or not.
There is no need to worry about consuming too much as shortly it will just be an impossibility. Reading this report is going to save me a lot of time in the future. Government will have to get to grips with the problem whether it likes it or not. Roll on the new economic paradigm. Thanks once again.
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