{"id":920,"date":"2009-11-11T07:10:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-11-11T07:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:10:40","slug":"the-s-word-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/the-s-word-again\/","title":{"rendered":"the S word again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.”<\/a><\/p>\n

That interesting bit of punditry comes to us via the BBC’s Green Room<\/a>, 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.”<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Not that such a dream is inherently flawed. It just neglects the primary lynchpin of biology: carrying capacity<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Sooner or later the dance will come around to the Great Taboo: overpopulation. That is when the real<\/em> fun begins.<\/p>\n

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