Denis Meadows

Dennis Meadows at World Resources Forum 2009 in Davos (CH): Growth versus Development.

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• Growth versus Development.

[poulha]

This about sums it all up, I suppose.

Let's get started....

[musicalidea]

@JunckiFilms The Navajos, Sioux and Lakota had it right, but our rapacious rulers must continue to extend the "gift" of "development" to the poor natives of every land - the gift of massive deforestation with Agent Orange in Indochina, Canada & Brazil (with a friendly birth defect followup), the gift of 2,000 active oil spills in Nigeria, the gift of barren mountains in Chiapas, the gift of millions-strong cities of cancer patient sweatshop slaves in China, the gift of the Pacific Vortex.

[musicalidea]

To shift focus from growth to development - from more throughput to a richer quality of life, from consumerism to cultivation, from endless work for shareholders' profit to enough work for shared betterment (aka "economy for use") - would require a transition from ulraCapitalism to Socialism. The global oligarchs have dismembered & are actively dismembering every trace of that vision. The global plutocracy will laugh atop the toxic mountain of our slaving bones until they themselves rot away.

[christo930]

2:22 HEY, I'm more than 2 meters! I know lots of people taller than 2 meters. I'm insulted:) I disagree with his food production, at least for the foreseeable future. He is not taking 2 things into consideration: 1) the pricing system. Inefficient uses of FF will be the first to go, such as sunday drives, nascar, people will combine trips and carpool as gas becomes more expensive. 2) Though it would be no longer a SOURCE of energy, oil can be pumped out of the ground at a net energy loss.

[Ironybleeds]

What does Dennis Meadows say about the Oil Spill?

[JunckiFilms]

Let's all sit back and watch the world go down! I hope our future generations will learn from our mistakes? Hopefully...

[TBonePickensetc]

Boring guy. Pawing the same ground over and over. All the elements he is talking about are well known and his spin is just repeating the overtly obvious.

The Technocracy technate design is a science based social design that uses energy accounting and not money to provide consuming and protect the resource base.

Viable alternative is a lot different than this guy stating the obvious with such utter uninformed suggestions for the future.