The Dogmother Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 A sobering website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Gulp! Makes one wonder how such relentless growth can possibly be reversed. A friend who works in the the field of environmental science says that runaway global warming is inevitable, that it is too late to stop it happening now. I keep hoping some kind of techno-fix will be found. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowberry Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Woa! That really puts things into perspective; thanks for posting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Blimey. The 'since you have been watching' statistics at the bottom are astonishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Gulp! Makes one wonder how such relentless growth can possibly be reversed. The growth doesn't need to be reversed (growth is a good thing!), but the ways countries go about achieving this growth needs to change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Is growth definitely a good thing? I may be being simplistic, but surely available space and many of our resources are finite? Climate change is something I try to take seriously, but I find it difficult to achieve as much in terms of lifestyle change as I would like to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 It depends what you are defining growth as. Growth in GDP is a good thing, it means countries can develop and be self reliant. Growth in population is a good thing too, places like Japan need population growth as they are a 'greying' population, which means there are a lot of retired people and this means a smaller workforce. But some countries need to reduce their population growth (not like China did, with its forced 1 child policy, but maybe with better education etc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Climate change is something I try to take seriously, but I find it difficult to achieve as much in terms of lifestyle change as I would like to. Me too, but I try to remember Gandhi's quote... 'we must be the change we wish to see in the world'; it all needs to start with ourselves, however small, if we make changes to our way of living, then by example we can encourage others to do so... it's all positive. Sometimes I feel very small in the whole scheme of things, but take heart that I do the best that I can within the constraints I have. Fred... wise words indeed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
