Monday, March 12, 2012
The Earth is Full
The Earth is full of people, species that has currently dominate the land and that have so much effect on the biosphere, from continent to contient. However, we are not living in a sustainable way. We are using what the earth can support--more than 1.5 earth. In other words, if we keep going with the same rate of resource depletion, we are one day going to used up all the resource, not to mention that the rate is still increasing. According to Gilding, our approach of economy is unsustainable. In order to be sustainable, the growth has to be zero. However people think this is quite impossible because it is necessary to our society, which was the question. He mentioned that most people think we need to develop technology, others think that we need to solve the poverty of the world. The problem is, Earth, our mother nature, cannot take it. We need to face that fact that if the economy keep on growing, the day is going to come. "The fear is the fear itself." He said our knowledge of science, economics, and technology is far enough to support much more people to live on this planet, but we need to 'choose' the right way. In order to make this right transition, everyone, scientists, artists, pelicans--people all over the world--have to cooperate.
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