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| The Reduction in the use of resources whilst maintaining economic growth: A Myth; The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake. | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 29 2015, 02:00 PM (82 Views) | |
| skwirked | Nov 29 2015, 02:00 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.monbiot.com/2015/11/24/false-promise/
I pointed out the lie that we have reduced carbon emissions before by pointing to import/export related stuff. This really does take the biscuit though. Why do these people call themselves 'economists'? |
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| Rich | Nov 29 2015, 02:30 PM Post #2 |
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I think the whole of the Carbon capture idea and all this "green" propaganda is a load of shite and is making £billions for a select few, if we really wanted to make a difference we would have done so, it is all for show and bucks,ffs, lets start by allowing the Amazon rain forest to regrow itself after decades of deforestationing. I despair at do gooders who apparently know what is best for us.....and their bank accounts. |
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| RJD | Nov 29 2015, 02:59 PM Post #3 |
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Prudence and Thrift
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If you want to capture carbon then go plant a few hundred million trees. Re-forest the planet, turn the deserts green and spawn carbon consuming algae in the oceans. Whilst you are at it go cull ~7b humans. We moan about climate change, but who is it they claim are causing such changes? Humans. So reduce the size of the human foot-print. Why do we need 9b or 12b consuming, shitting and farting across the Planet? What for? I am sure a world of <2b will be more easy to manage. |
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| Affa | Nov 29 2015, 03:03 PM Post #4 |
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A biblical solution .... don't you pause to consider that this is what is happening now, today? |
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| Rich | Nov 29 2015, 03:09 PM Post #5 |
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Papa warned many moons ago that if we did not control populations in a manageable way then nature would do it for us, I believed him then and I still believe him now. |
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| Cymru | Nov 29 2015, 04:27 PM Post #6 |
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We have to get over this obsession with maintaining economic growth. Having an economy based on constant economic growth in a world of finite resources is not only unsustainable it lessens the time we have to adapt before the resources are used up. It isn't rocket science, the maintaining of economic growth in a consumerist economy requires a constant expansion in the number of consumers which in turn has the effect of increasing the consumption of resources. |
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| Rich | Nov 29 2015, 04:55 PM Post #7 |
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Yes mate, it is simple arithmetics. |
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| RJD | Nov 29 2015, 06:13 PM Post #8 |
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Prudence and Thrift
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Yes but who will vote for a lowering in materialism? |
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| skwirked | Nov 29 2015, 06:27 PM Post #9 |
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None of our parties are for sensible policies wrt to OP. |
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| Rich | Nov 29 2015, 06:47 PM Post #10 |
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Certainly not those in receipt of benefits. |
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| skwirked | Nov 29 2015, 07:02 PM Post #11 |
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^ Not true. Plenty of those on tax credits voted for this govt. |
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| Rich | Nov 29 2015, 07:06 PM Post #12 |
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And have they suffered in any way as a result of voting that way? |
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| skwirked | Nov 29 2015, 07:09 PM Post #13 |
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Edited by skwirked, Nov 29 2015, 07:10 PM.
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| skwirked | Nov 29 2015, 07:09 PM Post #14 |
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They will by 2020 according to current policy, just next month they will suffer a small cut to real income. |
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