Paul Gilding: The Earth is full

http://www.ted.com Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.

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[webtweakers]

As he said: the facts are all around you, if you'd only open your eyes.

[Lars Pallesen]

Big on emotions, but very light on actual facts about our global situation.

[antoniomelike]

Cause the parent can't support all their own children, so they have to rely on government social programs. So our tax money goes to support excess population instead of causes like this.

[MagicalPapyrus2012]

The #1 problem with the world today is slc45a2 and their going extinct. Now we know what the fear is about. Just another way of lying to justify your lower nature. The ice caps are almost gone. You Can't just plan not to ever die and experience violent mental episodes for eternity. Set always makes an ass of himself in the end. Juopky

[fibbsabaddy]

So you sound like your familiar with the resource based economic model then?

[martingrannholmen]

When it comes to scarcity of resources and the economics profession it goes something like this. You get educated in all sorts of useful stuff during a 5 year education, interest rates, shadowbanking growth theory, and so forth, and when you finally come to the resource issue you learn some simple sentences: " When the price of a resource goes up, human creativity will solve the problem" or a variation of this sentence. Prices matter, but Natures law are unbending.

[TheBullerdaddy]

yeah, fat people, stop eating my food!

[Peter Jolliffe]

Exactly, well said, the madness of infinite growth cannot be stopped by a system that can only work at all by having infinite growth. There is still not one of our useless 'leaders' that is doing anything else but try to increase economic 'growth'.

[fibbsabaddy]

He was doing great until he choked on the 'we can do it with the current systems in place' okey doke. Wrong I am afraid. Our political, economic and social structure IS the problem inherently and has to go. Replaced by a Resource based economy.

[jack40k]

He's talking about peak oil, global warming, increasing population with declining fresh water per capita and food per capita.

[Aaron Russell]

See you in the front lines.

[Lucia JB]

let's End Ecocide, the mass damage and destruction to nature endecocide.eu