The
Impossible Hamster - This
entertaining video by The New Economics Foundation
demonstrates the dangers of unlimited growth. From YouTube
(1:10
minute)
Growth
isn't possible, a report by The New Economics
Foundation (NEF).
This report argues that indefinite global
economic growth is unsustainable. Just as the laws of
thermodynamics constrain the maximum efficiency of a heat
engine, economic growth is constrained by the finite nature of
our planet’s natural resources (biocapacity). Posted 2 February 2010.
Resolutions to Actions: LCWR Global Concerns
Committee; Vol. 19, No. 1, Feb 2010. ILLth:
Uneconomic Growth by David Kane and Kathy McNeely,
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
