in 1974, Stewart Udall, Charles Conconi and David Osterhout pinpointed two persistent and major concerns. The whole human enterprise is a machine without brakes, for there are no indications that the world’s political leaders will deal with the realities when catastrophes occur. The rich countries are using resources with an extravagant disregard for the next generation; and the poorer countries appear to be incapable of acting to curb the population increases that are erasing their hope for a better future. In such a world, declarations and manifestos which ignore the imperatives of the limits of growth are empty exercises. All the available evidence says we have already passed a point of no return, and tragic human convulsions are at hand.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 17:19:36 +0000
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