Bill Clinton: We have to slow our economy

That's not a rare comment for a politician to make at all. It's like when Bush said that oil prices need to go higher because Americans are using too much energy. In fact all you have to do study social science and polities at any mainstream university, read the minutes of the major foundations (or just their literature--not as spelled out though), same with the UN's resolutions and mandates, and you'll see the same "humane" solutions of forced abortions, licensing, sterilization etc.

Because politicians and those types of positions are built upon using words like "historic" and "crisis" when in actuality population has always been increasing and as a result every generation lives better than the previous. There is nothing "new" about today, except the population is getting larger faster, but so is the standard of living, as long as governments don't impede on the process, and snatch the resources (the ability to produce resources), in order to substantiate their claim.

But if you do plan on this happening, then the world probably will be "overpopulated" (at least in the eyes of the centralized bureaucracies) and as a result, the production will stop (because you can't have totalitarianism and markets) and there will become a fixed stock of resources, which will need to be rationed, and people will need to die, similar to the example of the Soviet Union, but really all throughout history.

"The way the capitalism works, if there is a problem, finance will find a solution"

LOL... this is ridiculous! Finance is not God... finance is NOT Omnipotent and It can't break the laws of physics!

Capitalism is not GOD. Period! Wake up idiots!

one word=SCUMBAG (Bill clinton)

remember the story of the tortoise and the hare?

I appreciate your honesty. I'm a dreamer, too. I dream of a world where we're not in such a frenzy to keep having MORE of everything, but instead are content, happier even, to live within our means!

some of us already are. in terms of volume, i have what i need.

what i want isn't more, it's better. a future for humanity beyond this rock.

i wouold say it's not growth, but consumerism that is causing the damage you so hate. in that regard, we would be in accord.

For more interesting discussion of the desirability/undesirability of economic retraction, including links to some more interesting clips and commentaries on Bill Clinton's remarks and others, see my filmmaker's blog at growthbusters dot com

linked on my blog. :)