The graph above comes from the introduction to the New Scientist's special report: "How our economy is killing the Earth." It takes the following as its central premise:
A growing band of experts are looking at figures like these and arguing that personal carbon virtue and collective environmentalism are futile as long as our economic system is built on the assumption of growth. The science tells us that if we are serious about saving Earth, we must reshape our economy.
Question growth?! I must have picked up New Socialist by accident!
Check out the report -- it's jam-packed with interesting stuff from Herman Daly, Gus Speth, David Suzuki, and many others. For more on the statistics behind the above graph, see here. And check out this doozy of an infographic:
Top 25 reasons to give a damn about climate change
Comments
View as Flat
vakibs Posted 10:03 pm
26 Oct 2008
None of your solutions will scale well against the problem : whether it is the task of satisfying energy needs or food needs of our society, or preserving the biodiversity of the planet.
Let's think in terms of eco-dollars.
Permalink
Colin Wright Posted 5:52 am
27 Oct 2008
The exponential function going down could be our saviour.
Permalink
Colin Wright Posted 5:55 am
27 Oct 2008
Permalink