Planet out of business | Max Gustafson
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Planet out of business | Max Gustafson
the notion of perpetual growth is just a social construct, initiated as a transition strategy to reboot the economy after World War II. It has now run its course.
And even if most Americans did suddenly “green” their lifestyles, underlying processes of production and disposal that are largely insulated from personal consumption decisions would still drive the planetary ecosystem toward collapse,
If industry prevails and we stick with a business-as-usual scenario — and pretty much all data indicates this is what we are doing — we’ll blow through our carbon budget in less than seven years.9 Global temperature rise will continue on its trajectory of 3°C10 increase or worse by the end of the century, and, in environmentalist Bill McKibben’s wo
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