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Old 01-06-2018, 01:21 PM   #728 (permalink)
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Certainly you guys don't think that 2% growth of GDP, population, food production, energy consumption, mineral consumption, ect, can go on much longer?
Certainly don't.

Without professional sports, pets, religion, and political corruption 1% degrowth would be sufficient to everyone's needs.

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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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