tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post5245994741187257909..comments2024-02-21T12:23:30.416-06:00Comments on PLANET IN PERIL: Suzuki & Rubin Pose a Necessary Question - "Is Endless Growth Possible or Even Desirable?"Graham Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10678179625435076216noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1070977933232664642.post-89207878417075312142013-07-23T20:35:45.301-05:002013-07-23T20:35:45.301-05:00David Rourke tells us…. "Endless economic gro...David Rourke tells us…. "Endless economic growth isn't sustainable".<br /><br />And in my view, that is the situation that we are faced with to-day.<br /> <br />The Prostitution of Academia, by David Suzuki. tells us:<br /><br />"Steady incremental growth within a given interval is called "exponential growth,"<br />and any scientist knows that nothing in the universe grows exponentially <br />indefinitely. <br />Yet economists,business people and politicians assume that the explosive <br />increase in income, consumer goods, and GNP (and inflation) of the past decades <br />must be maintained to sustain our quality of life.<br />Historians tell us that this is an aberration, a blip that must inevitably stop<br />and reverse itself.<br />But how can the fallacy of maintainable exponential growth be seriously challenged <br />when the university is busy selling the myth that it can help maintain such growth.?" <br /><br />So what are we to do? <br /><br />re:Autobiography of David Suzuki.<br /><br />"We have been repeatedly warned that we are on a dangerous path, and that we must<br />not turn our backs on the core survival strategy of our species. <br />Yet we continue to allow the demands of economy, political feasibility and personal <br />ambition to subordinate the ecological concerns that are so necessary for our survival".John Fefchaknoreply@blogger.com