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An extra comment about Malthus: he was partly wrong and partly right. He didn't foresee the rise of fossil fuels in temporarily boosting the ability of industrial civilization to grow and grow. Coal and oil and other materials allowed us to zoom from a billion people to seven billion today. But we can no longer increase the rate of extracting stuff from the Earth -- oil can't be extracted any faster, nor can coal, natural gas, uranium, fresh water, fish, trees, food, etc.

Steady state instead of more "growth" (ie. boom and bust) seems the only way toward sincere sustainability. The claim of "sustainable growth" is an oxymoron now that we're past the limits to growth. It is sustain-a-bull.

by Mark Robinowitz on Jun 6, 2012 6:23 pm • link • report

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