Stand by for another run at the “S” word – “… as it turns out, conventional economics and sustainable development are two of the most unsound foundations for grand societal change – the type required for sustainability – that have been devised.”
That interesting bit of punditry comes to us via the BBC’s Green Room, featuring John Manoochehri. Here’s another tid-bit: “Sustainable development currently is like a kaleidoscope: all you can do is keep going and enjoy the pretty patterns because there is no conceptual framework, still less a map or timetable that might tell you what it all means.”
Ahoy! Isn’t it fun when somebody gets it right? Too bad the game slides back into techno-culture babble from there. We’re back to futuristic THX-1138 dreams of a “colossal investment in a material economy that cycles everything, and compels industry (more than consumers) to design and produce things as part of that cycle.”
Not that such a dream is inherently flawed. It just neglects the primary lynchpin of biology: carrying capacity.
Sooner or later the dance will come around to the Great Taboo: overpopulation. That is when the real fun begins.
posted by Mudd
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