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The father of all problems is the ideology of continued growth...
... which has only one scenario...
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Radical Ecological Economics
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    Our basic problem is:

"Overshoot"
of the planet's carrying capacity,
=
overloading
the planet
by too many people using up too much resources
There is one huge,
immediate problem:

Peak-Oil
=
the maximum of daily oil availability and its subsequent reduction
The human impact on the environment can be summarized by the equation I = P x A x T

Our environmental problems, such as deforestation and desertification, food and water shortages, threats to the survival of nature (biodiversity), resource depletion, pollution and slumification, and climate change are all aggravated by population growth and economic expansion, also known as economic "growth". growth tables...

growth tables...

In a finite world
Growth
is a suicidal policy.


Overshoot and resource depletion can logically only be countered by contraction. [A glossary]
Ecostories 2011: Focus "Peak-Oil" (Peak-Earth)
32/2011 "Government asked to investigate new pesticide link to bee decline"

31/2011 "Green Growth"

30/2011 Gas extraction practices and PR exposed by a normal citizen

29/2011 Development of indigenous peoples

28/2011 Illusionists - making the impossible possible, by the sheer magic of words.

27/2011 HOT-people - Hoffnung Optimismus Technologie.
27/2011 HOT-people - Hope Optimism Technology
27/2011 HOT-people - Hope Optimism Technology; EOT Espoir Optimisme Technologie

26/2011 Wachstumsgrenzen im Telekombereich - am Bespiel der Swisscom
26/2011 Limits to Growth in the Telecom sector - at the example of Swisscom
26/2011 Les limites à la croissance dans le secteur des télécoms - par l'exemple de Swisscom

25/2011 Landwirtschaft in Afrika Richtige Fragen und falsche Antworten.

24/2011 "Die Sachzwange der Götter" Wie entscheidet man, wer hungert und wer nicht?

23/2011 "Saudi Arabia to import 2 million tonnes of wheat in 2011"

22/2011 Die neue Mobilität gemäss Bundesrätin Doris Leuthard.

20/2011 Davos - les sons des "leaders" au Forum Mondial Économique

19/2011 "La politique de la mobilité déraille

18/2011 Fatih Birol and his Team of the IEA 2010 World Energy Outlook

17/2011 Aid for Trade

16/2011 Growing pressure for moratorium on UK shale gas 'fracking'

15/2011 Oil Decline Rate And Population

14/2011 The Fuzzy Sheep of CleanTech

13/2011 Une brève histoire du pétrole.

12/2011 "Don't count the sheep - Talk to the shepherd!"

11/2011 Footprint update January 2011

10/2011 "Achieving world food security is a global challenge for governments and industry"

9/2011 "2011 - 7 Milliarden Menschen" Wieviel Menschen erträgt die Erde?

8/2011 "Oil giant plans new platform near feeding ground of critically endangered whale"

7/2011 IEA 2010 World Energy Outlook

6/2011 Groundwater depletion, food, and fossil fuels

5/2011 "One poor harvest away from chaos"

4/2011 "The CEO and the New Feudalism"

3/2011 Land fizzing like soda pop: farmer says CO2 injected underground is leaking

2/2011 World Oil Capacity to Peak in 2010 Says Petrobras CEO

1/2011
Neujahrsansprache der Bundespräsidentin Frau Micheline Calmy-Rey
New Year's Speech from the Swiss President Mrs Micheline Calmy-Rey
Allocution de Nouvel An par la présidente de la confédération suisse Micheline Calmy-Rey
Allocuzione di Capodanno 2011 - Micheline Calmy-Rey



0/2011
Ein realistisches gutes neues Jahr...
A Realistic Happy New Year..
Une bonne année réaliste...
"Sustainability"
means human society
in the balance with nature.
The balances are maintained if a resource is not consumed at a higher rate than needed for regeneration.

Many resources are non-renewable.
So here we must judge very carefully at which speed we may reasonably use these.
All resources - regenerative and non-renewable - are horribly over-exploited. 		"Environment"  
frequently means "Business"
- for business, politics, academia and non-government organisations.
Manifold are the models, propositions, and illusions about saving the world by business-as-usual - less some measures on the margins - with hoped-for, future technologies.

ecoglobe tries to cut through the "Business" maze of complications, contradictions and ideologies.  
We simplify where possible and rectify where necessary, independent, committed to reality.
Every two seconds five additional human beings are added to the world population:
This is called the
"Population Bomb".
In ten years the situation
will look like this:

More people need more food, water, space and raw materials.
The problems are local.
There where the babies are born they increase the overpopulation and often the misery.
Mentioning these facts is not racism but a sense for reality.
"Sustainable development" excludes economic growth and population growth.
Development in poor areas must be offset by contraction in overdeveloped areas.
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