Tag: peak resources
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Economic Fallacies: “Linear Projection”
The Linear Projection Fallacy projects present circumstances and trends endlessly into the future without allowing for innovation and societal change. There are about 300 million people in the USA today. About 13% (39 million) would say they were Black, and another 13% would say they were Hispanic. Let's say that by this century's end, we…
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Humans living far beyond planet’s means: WWF
From Yahoo! News: Humans living far beyond planet's means: WWF (WWF is World Wildlife Foundation. Not to be confused with the venerable World Wrestling Federation.) BEIJING (Reuters) – Humans are stripping nature at an unprecedented rate and will need two planets' worth of natural resources every year by 2050 on current trends, the WWF conservation…
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Theology and Economics: Economic Growth and Future Resources
I ended the last post by observing that what we need is not fewer people but more people who are stewards. Stewards are people who can get the most output with the least input on a sustainable basis. The obstacle to having more stewards is the grinding poverty that dominates vast regions of the world.…