environment have been in a slow motion...? collision since the industrial revolution?
Examples:
1. China and India are developing a larger middle class and encouraging consumption. That's good for the global economy, but bad for the environment.
2. Some European economies are suffering under aging populations and encouraging their citizens to reproduce so that they'll have more workers to support the retirees. Good for their economies, but that logic leads to ever growing populations which would be environmentally unsustainable.
Isn't it time we came up with a new economic system that doesn't require an ever growing global human population and ever greater resource consumption?
Do you think we could?
I'm putting this question in the politics section because I believe that any laws, policies and decisions that would effect the economy and environment would have to be made by our political leaders.
Examples:
1. China and India are developing a larger middle class and encouraging consumption. That's good for the global economy, but bad for the environment.
2. Some European economies are suffering under aging populations and encouraging their citizens to reproduce so that they'll have more workers to support the retirees. Good for their economies, but that logic leads to ever growing populations which would be environmentally unsustainable.
Isn't it time we came up with a new economic system that doesn't require an ever growing global human population and ever greater resource consumption?
Do you think we could?
I'm putting this question in the politics section because I believe that any laws, policies and decisions that would effect the economy and environment would have to be made by our political leaders.