Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Most Important Issue in 90 Words
We live on a planet with finite resources. A growing world population consuming resources and generating pollution at the rates required to support the American lifestyle is unsustainable and is ultimately suicidal for the planet. We must change our values, goals, and our definition of success. We must live first and foremost to conserve the life-supporting capacity of our planet and not to consume it. Cooperation can lead to survival. Competition only leads to destruction and death. Perpetual economic growth is impossible. We need to shrink the GDP, eliminate personal wealth as the goal of life, and develop a lifestyle that is sustainable.
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All this may happen, but not in the way you would like. Not by choice. The conditions you decry may lead to catastrophe, thereby reducing population. When that occurs there may be a revelation among the survivors that the earth cannot support this many rapacious mammals. And we are growing taller and heavier.You and I would like to think this could be accomplished by conscious design. I am not hopeful. Is there a cosmic imperative to preserve our particular DNA pattern? And what is the lower limit? One thousand individuals? It may come to that.
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