Capitalism truly is evil and the thought that the world economy can grow unabated is flawed. Use a bit of logic for a second, how can the economies of countries continue to grow without limits in a world with a finite amount of resources? Economists and politicians who promise that this can happen are delusional, we cannot put anything in front of the environment it’s what provides us with everything we have and ever will have.

Renewable energies is only a small portion of what must be done, simply put we have to reduce our consumption and change our way of living completely. Status quo is simply unsustainable. NewScientist has a great series of articles on this topic if you have some time please check it out, it’s definitely worth reading. The graph is definitely an eyeopener.

In recent weeks it has become clear just how terrified governments are of anything that threatens growth, as they pour billions of public money into a failing financial system. Amid the confusion, any challenge to the growth dogma needs to be looked at very carefully. This one is built on a long-standing question: how do we square Earth’s finite resources with the fact that as the economy grows, the amount of natural resources needed to sustain that activity must grow too? It has taken all of human history for the economy to reach its current size. On current form it will take just two decades to double.

We like pride ourselves as the top predator on the planet but how important are we truly? Would the Earth or other animals care if humans vanished? Probably not but what would happen if all the plankton or trees just disappeared? The whole biosphere would collapse, that’s a bit sobering don’t you think…