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New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears - WSJ.com: Mar 27, 10:39am 2 reviews economics, society, globalization
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120613138379155707.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news...; From the page:
"Dennis Meadows, one of the authors of "The Limits to Growth," says the book was too optimistic in one respect. The authors assumed that if humans stopped harming the environment, it would recover slowly. Today, he says, some climate-change models suggest that once tipping points are passed, environmental catastrophe may be inevitable even "if you quit damaging the environment."

"One danger is that governments, rather than searching for global solutions to resource constraints, will concentrate on grabbing share."

New technology could help ease the resource crunch. Advances in agriculture, desalination and the clean production of electricity, among other things, would help."

"But Mr. Stiglitz, the economist, contends that consumers eventually will have to change their behavior even more than then did after the 1970s oil shock. He says the world's traditional definitions and measures of economic progress -- based on producing and consuming ever more -- may have to be rethought."

Many industrialized and now developing countries are following our footsteps on the road to consumerism. The have-nots want what they've never had the opportunity to have until now! Life is easy as a consumer until observation and simple logic comes full circle. Energy at this point isn't unlimited and most of our products come from mostly non-renewable resources or those which take copious amounts of energy to re-use.