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Thinking 100 years into the future with assumptions from 100 years in the past\u2026 is a problem. It\u2019s tragic to hear of Barak\u2019s crystal clear statement about global warming.<\/p>\n
We know that preventing global warming requires physically lowering our total resource footprint on the earth so we can live\u00a0sustainably. \u00a0 That directly conflicts with all his other policies for continually swelling our footprint by restoring continual economic growth.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not only Barak, obviously, but the whole \u2018civilized culture\u2019 he represents. As wonderful a guy as he seems to be, he comes from a culture that knows no solution for declining resources other than priming the pump to find creative new ways to accelerate their consumption, making them decline faster.<\/p>\n
The other real problem, which Barak also deeply cares about is a totally contradictory way, is “winners and losers”. \u00a0Promoting growth against natural limits:<\/span><\/p>\n I guess that\u2019s not too complicated, but clearly neither he nor his tradition bound \u201cindependent thinkers\u201d have figured it out yet\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" from RunningOnEmpty post 1\/18\/08 Thinking 100 years into the future with assumptions from 100 years in the past\u2026 is a problem. It\u2019s tragic to hear of Barak\u2019s crystal clear statement about global warming. We know that preventing global warming requires physically lowering our total resource footprint on the earth so we can live\u00a0sustainably. \u00a0 That … Continue reading The tragedy of Barak<\/span> …the increasing consumption of resources for the winners comes from multiplying the losses for and the number of losers…<\/h3>\n