Bill Clinton: We have to slow our economy

Former President Bill Clinton told a truth few politicians have the knowledge or backbone to tell about climate change and environmental sustainability on January 30, 2008. Unfortunately he went on to say developed nations can't do what needs to be done. Fox News commentators are baffled by the notion that economic growth is inconsistent with sustainability.

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News & Politics

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• sustainability
• climate
• change
• clinton
• economic
• growth
• growthbusters

[Teralek]

"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!

[Growthbuster]

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

[personutile]

instead of wasting your time in decreasing growth in industrial world (which will lead to economic crisis) why don't you spend more time to promote family planning in Africa where people are breeding like rabbits instead of promoting it in industrial countries where we already have demographic and economic crisis

[dilipjoym]

Hei USA - first reduce your per capita emissions. Then, preach to the rest of the world !

[dilipjoym]

Highest Per capita CO2 emissions is still the highest in USA ! So, the whole system of lifestyle in usa is not at all climate friendly. But, it will be great, if this system can produce a low cost breakthrough clean technology which the whole world can adopt.

[ScreenwriterMovie]

nothing to do with bush. something to do with population decline and dow jones crash 2008.

[guyjohn59]

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.

[guyjohn59]

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.

[guyjohn59]

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.

[dtcheatham]

one word=SCUMBAG (Bill clinton)

[KarateKidX]

remember the story of the tortoise and the hare?