{"id":6908,"date":"2017-06-06T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T07:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6908"},"modified":"2017-06-06T07:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T07:19:58","slug":"tue-infinite-growth-and-a-finite-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/06\/06\/tue-infinite-growth-and-a-finite-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite growth, a finite environment, and the hereafter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's a link to a recent Ronald\u00a0Rovers\u00a0blog<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 The Growth Syndrome: a pyramid game<\/em>. \u00a0In this he addresses issues of economic growth and the planet's ability to cope with that growth (and much more). \u00a0This is how it begins:<\/p>\n

Richard Attenborough summarized it as follows: \u201dAnyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist.\u201d \u00a0The addiction to\u00a0profit and money making by economists has simularities with religion fanatics. \u00a0They are both afraid of the here and now, to live the life. \u00a0With one difference: the one tries to escape reality by exorbitant money making, and neglect the physical borders of the system, and the other, usually less wealthy, by adoring a life after, this way also neglecting the here and now. \u00a0The one supporting the other: the less wealthy, the underclass, accepts faith, that reward comes after life, the other forgets about life, while busy exploiting that belief.<\/p>\n

However, its the planet that is the given reality, nothing else. In the triple bottom line,\u00a0known as \u2018people planet profit\u2018,\u00a0people and profit are only added since\u00a0both,\u00a0people\u00a0and profiteers\u00a0are afraid to be confronted with\u00a0the limits of the\u00a0other, the\u00a0planet. \u00a0They are looking for escapes, to avoid living up to the planets potential, and add profit\u00a0(-economy)\u00a0to feel they\u00a0have the idea that there is something to decide, that there are several ways out. \u00a0But there\u00a0ain\u2019t. \u00a0The economy has no relation whatsoever with the physical process in time: Everything depletes, increases entropy, and the only influence\/option man has, is to speed it up or to slow it down. \u00a0But in the\u00a0belief\u00a0that reward is only after life.\u00a0And economy\u00a0so far has proved\u00a0to speed it up. I am sorry but there is no other conclusion. \u00a0The \u2018holey trinity \u2018, is a trinity of PPP , or \u2018triple bottom line\u2019, is one in which people are caught between two \u2018fires\u2019: Planet and Profit. Burned by the climate or roasted by the profiteers. \u00a0As such it can be seen as creating hell on earth, which makes the wish for heaven afterwards more understandable. ...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There's much here to provoke in every sense, particularly in the current dark days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here's a link to a recent Ronald\u00a0Rovers\u00a0blog\u00a0\u2013 The Growth Syndrome: a pyramid game. \u00a0In this he addresses issues of economic growth and the planet's ability to cope with that growth (and much more). \u00a0This is how it begins: Richard Attenborough...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}