Sadly there's so much ignorance and denial. That the Earth is limited has been recognised for a long time, any level of rigorous analysis is relatively recent, since WW2, for example "The Limits to Growth" 1972 (https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/)
sad conclusions. It predicts that population will peak about the middle of this century then decline fairly abruptly - by what means that occurs will probably not be witnessed by me or most of the people making current policy. Essentially we are without care for our children - our attention is on current problems of housing, cost of food, etc. Very few of our children (now young adults) know what they are stumbling into ...
Perhaps in 100 years from now (several billions prematurely dead) humanity will realise what's valuable - and it's not "Economic Growth"
I remember a film I made years ago with John Fullerton (who is a member of the Club of Rome) on the Re-Imagining of Capitalism. What I actually remember vividly was a point at which he states that the math (of capitalism in its current state) does not add up.
Excellent to pose this inquiry . . . disconnect from the Erath, our home, has been a progressively wider and wider, gaping gap ~ how could there not be deleterious effects? If a tree is uprooted and the roots are left in the light of day w/o nutrients from the soil . . . just imagine how long thye life of that beautiful, grand ole tree! We are that!
Sadly there's so much ignorance and denial. That the Earth is limited has been recognised for a long time, any level of rigorous analysis is relatively recent, since WW2, for example "The Limits to Growth" 1972 (https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/)
sad conclusions. It predicts that population will peak about the middle of this century then decline fairly abruptly - by what means that occurs will probably not be witnessed by me or most of the people making current policy. Essentially we are without care for our children - our attention is on current problems of housing, cost of food, etc. Very few of our children (now young adults) know what they are stumbling into ...
Perhaps in 100 years from now (several billions prematurely dead) humanity will realise what's valuable - and it's not "Economic Growth"
I remember a film I made years ago with John Fullerton (who is a member of the Club of Rome) on the Re-Imagining of Capitalism. What I actually remember vividly was a point at which he states that the math (of capitalism in its current state) does not add up.
Thanks Nic. An honor to collaborate with you on this. Hugs, G.
Yes.
The macro & the micro.
We are the earth - the earth in us and us in the wider earth.
We have largely 'forgotten' this, and it breaks us open to remember.
Excellent to pose this inquiry . . . disconnect from the Erath, our home, has been a progressively wider and wider, gaping gap ~ how could there not be deleterious effects? If a tree is uprooted and the roots are left in the light of day w/o nutrients from the soil . . . just imagine how long thye life of that beautiful, grand ole tree! We are that!