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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
I reckon its a bit deeper than this.
Unless we can somehow develop an economic model that doesnt rely on constant growth for its existence, no amount of cutting back will help.
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In the current geo-political environment that is not going to happen
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I find it interesting to see how all the financial/economic wizards say we have to get bigger to be efficient, but "most" of the time this happens, it becomes more cumbersome, impersonal and ends up costing us more???
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Vested interests me thinks!
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However, i think all that will pale into insignificance when compared to the accelerating effects of pure population growth, and its requirements for power/food/cars/idevices :-)
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In large part population growth is driven by poverty. Developed countries have little or indeed negative population growth. In fact the population of many developed nations only increase due to immigration. The residents of developed nations, however, do have material aspirations. So even if the population growth is fairly slow the take up of power hungry gadgets and appliances seems to be increasing. Furthermore, businesses require a growing market to increase their profits. Thats what it comes down to, profits! For good or for ill.
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That will swamp any gains we make by switching off a few lights in Oz.
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We have to start somewhere. To do nothing is to admit defeat.