On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:06:23 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:05:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

Yeah, but, is it environmentalism that is the folly, or is it the
resource intensive consumer paradigm? On this increasingly crowded
planet, sustainability should have a place.

I hear this argument all the time and I can't say that I agree.

To tell the truth, the intensive consumer IS the driver of economics and
has been since, well, forever. It's how progress is measured.

To my way of thinking, we are limiting ourselves to this thought that
nothing can ever be replaced, but that's just not true.

Economies ran on human power, animal power, water power, steam power and
now oil power. The next big thing hasn't been developed yet, but it
will and life will go on.

Of course life will go on, and man will most likely have a place, but the transition may not be pretty. It
would seem prudent to develop the "next big thing" before exhausting what we have now. This world,
and it's resources, are finite.