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* Dennis Meadows - Economics and Limits to Growth: What's Sustainable?: Dr. Dennis Meadows is one of the authors ... http://www.theoildrum.com/node... *
January 4, 2010
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"What are today considered to be problems are actually symptoms. The real problem is physical growth in material and energy flows pressing against the limits of a finite planet."
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"I was born in 1942. Over 95% of all the oil ever used in human history has been used since I was born."
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Main points of his talk: "Growth has continued until we are now past sustainable levels."
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"The global society will change more over the next 20 years than in the past 100. Design policies for what is coming, not what has been."
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"The end of growth does not result from total depletion, but from rising capital costs."
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"The most important scarcity is the absence of a longer-term perspective. "
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Concludes with nice demo of the relative importance of words and action.
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