Saving the environment sounds like a bitter economic pill. Yet, the state of our planet forces us to rethink global consumer-driven economics, which has served us well… until now. Reshaping our economies for sustainability is a less painful but necessary approach, and could even prove more lucrative in the long-run.
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How far can prosperity and uncontrolled population growth go hand in hand?
The mice in the experiment proved that uncontrolled population expansion was a disaster. Let’s hope human expansion on a planet will fare better.
‘We shape our buildings, but then our buildings shape us.’ To what extent is this true of your society?
Buildings are costly so we only build when it’s worth the cost to us. The decision of what buildings to erect also reflect their builders’ needs and priorities, so our buildings are, in a way, telling on us too.
To what extent is human life in general about the survival of the fittest?
It’s amazing how our species, comparatively physically weak as it is, could overtake our competing species and finally emerge at the top of the Earth’s food chain. In the game of ‘survival of the fittest’, how did we win? And what did we win?
Bigger is always better
Growth is a biological imperative. Where life is concerned, size matters.