
Please read/circulate. Thanks. This is perhaps my most-significant yet contribution to the emerging discourse around preparing ourselves to face up to potential climate- and societal- collapse:
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Rupert J Read See also this new podcast of mine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mddAgYXClAHide or report this
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Aubrey Meyer In the unavoidable context of ‘Limits to Growth’, talking again about procreation clearly makes sense.
However, we should remain alert to the relative time-frames for the rates of growth between population, pollution and GDP and compare the rates of these in relation to ‘success’.
The GDP growth rate now oustrips and dominates everything.
It is underpinned by the growth in energy production and we have precious little time left to contain this ‘fast-breeder reaction’: –
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Aubrey Meyer Then there is the issue of ‘unequal distribution’: – http://www.gci.org.uk/images/OXFAM_E_&_D.pngHide or report this
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Aubrey Meyer Aubrey Meyer Once all that is seen in the context of the limits to growth, the issue of ‘unequal distribution’ is more simply formulated as ‘equity equals survival’: –
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Friends!; I’d be most grateful if you watched/shared this – my latest talk on the climate emergency / #ExtinctionRebellion; this time, a talk with specific relevance to GREENS…
The talk is 25 mins.

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