TEDxTC - Jonathan Foley - The Other Inconvenient Truth

John Peet: Time to defy the worship of growth

Will policies to grow the economy work? There are two sides to a response to that question.
Side A says economic growth is undermining the very ecological systems that not only support life on the planet but also are the foundation of the economy, and for that reason it is not sustainable.
Side B says failure to grow the economy risks social and political instability. Both are probably correct.

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In the end, however, money is still a claim on future consumption - an IOU, in effect - so when it is spent, the physical and resource connections kick in. Mother Nature doesn't do bailouts, so printing or borrowing money simply builds up resource problems for the future.

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John Peet: Time to defy the worship of growth

YOU ARE HERE: The Oil Journey (Narrated by Peter Coyote)

Bastards of a Dying World

Radio Ecoshock audio

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 Bastards of a Dying World

Clever

Guns, Germs and Steel

This is in 18 segments on YouTube, it's also available on Watch Instantly if you subscribe to Netflix.


This is relevant to this site because it highlights how our environment can be an advantage, or a disadvantage to the development of technology.


There are those who fail to appreciate that without a benign Mother Nature, we are no more.

Lighter side

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."


— David Letterman


"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"


— Lee Iacocca, CEO/Chairman, Chrysler Corporation, 1979-1992


"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all."


— Robert Orben

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."


— Kenneth Boulding

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society."


— Mark Twain

FUNNY ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTES

Black Cross Movement

Across coal ash sites, coal-fired plants and coal mines in Illinois, black crosses are quickly emerging as haunting reminders of the human and environmental toll of coal on the region. Signs have been left with the quotation:


You shall not press upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns.
You shall not crucify us any longer upon a cross of coal.

Imminent Danger: Black Cross Movement Hits Big Coal Giants and Global Forum in St. Louis and Midwest Jeff Biggers.Author

Black crosses that appeared Monday in several locations throughout Southern Illinois were the work of an environmental group in protest of the mining and burning of coal for energy.

Local group protests coal use

Just as southern Illinois-born populist William Jennings Bryan stirred the nation in 1896 with his famous “Cross of Gold” speech, the Black Cross Alliance calls on the Obama administration and the state of Illinois to halt billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for multinational coal corporations, and bring an end to the scandalous coal wars in Illinois by re-investing in a sustainable energy policy for the future.


The Black Cross Alliance declares: You shall not crucify us any longer upon a cross of coal.

Black Crosses Continue to Rise Across Coal Belt as Warning



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