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Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles
Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles
Dr. Glen Barry http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-b...8/04/12/p24731 http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-b...dead_world.jpg The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubble... Ecological overshoot whereby humanity exceeds the Earth's carrying capacity is the mother of all "bubbles". Within the current sub-prime mortgage and financial bubbles, and food and energy price increases, we are witnessing the logical and inevitable economic consequences of over-population, resource scarcity, inequitable and unreasonable consumption, and unsustainable economic growth. Growth and livelihoods based upon unreasonable presumptions of continued resource outputs from dwindling ecosystems is a dangerous, unprecedented "ecological bubble" that threatens civilization and mass apocalyptic death. The global growth machine is seizing up because it is hitting ecological limits, and as a result of its own greed. Clearly the addition of a billion more people every decade and a half, physical limits upon arable land and fossil fuels -- as well as exceeding the atmosphere's waste absorption capacity and minimum amount of intact terrestrial ecosystems necessary to power the biosphere -- are together severely negatively impacting economies and individual's well-being.................... http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-b...8/04/12/p24731 |
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