When I think of the dangers of conflict, I don't like the limits either. But that's where the current model of growth is taking us. Wolf frames the issue as if the "socialists" who believe in "birth-pangs" or whatever (strawman) are somehow responsible for running mankind into danger. And he appears to be declaring sympathy with climate change or peak oil deniers. Finally, he bases his entire case on the rising tide argument re economic growth.
What he needs to decide is what he really has to say about global warming and finite resources. But maybe the financial system will give him a big prod before he makes up his mind. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
For if there are limits to emissions, there may also be limits to growth. But if there are indeed limits to growth, the political underpinnings of our world fall apart.
Still, I never thought I'd read these words--even an admission of possibility-- from him. Of course he bases his arguments on "revealed truth"-- he always has. But he's not a fool, and such insights have happened before. "There is mysterious music in democracy, when people decide to believe in themselves." ---Bill Greider, The Nation.
