APHORISMS galore:
It is widely considered, it is universal, orthodox thinking, that we can go on expanding our numbers and activities on a planet that is not expanding.
We are living infinitely on a finite planet.
We are living unnaturally on a natural planet.
We are living for economic growth and population growth.
We are living beyond our means, our limits and our boundaries.
We have a live it up today and to hell with tomorrow mentality.
We are living today to come a cropper tomorrow!
What we take today, we don't have tomorrow.
We are liquidising our assets; living off capital as if its income.
Expansion economics from a diminishing capital resource base!
Economic growth is ecological retraction as the chickens eventually come home to roost.
Wealth creation is actually poverty creation.
There's no material gain without pain - eventually!
What goes up must come down - never ending wealth from economic and population growth must be living in cloud cuckoo land. It must, eventually, lead to economic bust and population crash.
What takes an age for us, goes in the twinkling of an eye in the geological time scale of the earth.
Never before has the poor planet seen such an unnatural explosion of greenhouse gases, as the lot of us burn up the fossil fuels in 300 years that the earth took 300 million years to form. Thus, the Lady must be right with this:
"We are embarked on a massive experiment with the very life support systems of the earth itself." Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher (the most honourable thing she ever said!)
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