[Pen-l] Gus Speth

[Dan Scanlan <coolhanduke1029@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gus Speth -- Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University -- concludes in The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (Yale University Press, 2008) that if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in.

Speth writes that "there were warning signs along the way, but we did not notice then, or when we did, we paid no heed."

These signs said things like:

• being, not having
• giving, not getting
• needs, not wants
• better, not newer
• community, not individual
• other, not self
• connected, not separated
• ecology, not economy
• part of nature, not apart from nature
• dependent, not transcendent
• tomorrow, not today

We ignored these signs.

Now, according to Speth, unless we take action, we will be toast.

-- From Ralph Nader campaign essay.( votenader.org )

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