Today, the scale, inequity and inefficiency of our economic system has surpassed nature’s limits. If none is to be found, technology will step in to keep the economic engines rolling in perpetuity.Ĭountless decisions resulting from this “open” world mindset have improved the lives of many, while causing vast, negative, mostly unintended, consequences. As one source is depleted, another one will be found and exploited. Many economists asserted, therefore-and many still do-that the natural world is a virtually limitless stock, available for exploitation by commerce. Once upon a time, when our current industrial economic system began, the scale and efficiency of human activity was small compared to the seemingly limitless bounty of nature. What is she referring to, and is her outrage warranted? Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg did not mince her words when she denounced the “fairy tale” of eternal economic growth in her speech to the United Nations. Greta Thunberg, speaking at the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019 We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words… People are suffering. Environment & Energy Congressional Round-Up.House and Senate Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Caucuses.Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency EXPO.National Security and Energy Independence.

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