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Save a planet: Limit unbridled increases of economic growth
December 25, 2008
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If the next generation does not do better than the leaders of my “Not So GREAT GREED GRAB Generation†of elders has done to protect Earth from reckless environmental degradation and resource dissipation, then I cannot even imagine what the future will look like for those who are alive 40 years from now. The “pale blue dot†may not be so beautiful a place to inhabit in 2050, I fear.
Our children will do better; but first they will need to understand that the patently unsustainable overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities which their elders so adamantly and relentlessly advocate will have to be forsaken.....soon. Accepting human limits and Earth’s limitations, and behaving accordingly, could be a goal worth achieving.