The engines of progress have merely accelerated our rush to the brink.

George Monbiot
Tuesday February 15, 2005
The Guardian

The reality of climate change is that the engines of progress have merely accelerated our rush to the brink.

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The denial of climate change, while out of tune with the science, is consistent with, even necessary for, the outlook of almost all the world’s economists. Modern economics, whether informed by Marx or Keynes or Hayek, is premised on the notion that the planet has an infinite capacity to supply us with wealth and absorb our pollution. The cure to all ills is endless growth. Yet endless growth, in a finite world, is impossible. Pull this rug from under the economic theories, and the whole system of thought collapses.
And this, of course, is beyond contemplation.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1414894,00.html