http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/climate-institute-all-eyes-on-the-government-now/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:46:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/04/climate-institute-all-eyes-on-the-government-now/#comment-2717 Ian Rudd Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2717 Does anyone really believe we can continue to grow jobs (and the population) and the economy as John suggests and still deal with GHG emissions and all the other environmental stresses that are increasingly making themselves felt? It is precisely because of continuing population growth and the developed world's myopic obsession with economic growth that we find, only a few hundred years after the beginning of the industrial revolution, that we are exhausting the planets capacity to absorb our waste and provide us with the resources including oil, oceanic fish stocks, potable water and and arable land that have got us as far as we have. Denial or ignoring the problem alas does not fix it.<br /> Does anyone really believe we can continue to grow jobs (and the population) and the economy as John suggests and still deal with GHG emissions and all the other environmental stresses that are increasingly making themselves felt? It is precisely because of continuing population growth and the developed world’s myopic obsession with economic growth that we find, only a few hundred years after the beginning of the industrial revolution, that we are exhausting the planets capacity to absorb our waste and provide us with the resources including oil, oceanic fish stocks, potable water and and arable land that have got us as far as we have. Denial or ignoring the problem alas does not fix it.

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