Monday, December 19, 2011

Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable?

Kenneth Rogoff - Project Syndicate

quote:
with the world’s population surging above seven billion, and harbingers of resource constraints becoming ever more apparent, there is no guarantee that this trajectory can be maintained. [ emphasis mine]
Comment:

I wonder why it never seems to occur to these people that you can get all these resource constraints handled if you were to get off the Earth.   The presumption is that limitations that exist must always exist, and that there is no way beyond the current limits.  But if that were really true, we'd all still be living in caves.

This is the failure of the imagination, and the failure of will.

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