Archive for December, 2008

What nobody (including me) wants to hear

December 13, 2008
What nobody (including me) wants to hear

This planet can not sustain current economic growth (given current population). We can’t go on as we have been. As described in many venues, including Jarad Diamond’s book, “Collapse,” the planet’s resources are finite and being used at an accelerated rate – examples – food supplies from the oceans are being depleted by over...
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“The Bridge At the Edge of the World” Reviewed

December 30, 2008

By James Gustave Speth This book should be called, “A Review of Current Literature Regarding Sustainability.”  With the alluring subtitle, “Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability,”  Speth’s work has little in the way of original thought. It is, after all, published by an academic press, Yale, and reads like it. Regardless of the number...
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