The world's population is burning through the planet's resources at such a reckless rate - about 28 per cent more last year - it will eventually cause environmental havoc, said the Worldwatch Institute, a US think-tank. In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate change could be wiped out by the cult of consumption and greed unless changes in our lifestyle were made. Consumerism had become a "powerful driver" for increasing demand for resources and consequent production of waste, with governments, including the British, too readily wanting to promoted it as necessary for job creation and economic well-being. More than £2.8 trillion of stimulus packages had been poured into economies to pull the world out of the global recession, it found, with only a small amount into green measures.
In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate change could be wiped out by the cult of consumption and greed unless changes in our lifestyle were made.
Consumerism had become a "powerful driver" for increasing demand for resources and consequent production of waste, with governments, including the British, too readily wanting to promoted it as necessary for job creation and economic well-being.
More than £2.8 trillion of stimulus packages had been poured into economies to pull the world out of the global recession, it found, with only a small amount into green measures.
the cult of consumption and greed
It certainly agrees with me - and I don't find cult too strong a word at all in this context.
I don't find cult too strong a word at all in this context.
The idea that we are all, somehow, part of a cult of consumption and greed, while true, is confounding and demoralizing. How do we get out of a cult of which we were, until recently, unaware? Boy, we must be dumb. Given this, how can we be trusted to do better? Etc.
Far more effective to identify those who created the cult, to show how it benefits their interests to the detriment of our own, to subvert the hold that The Myth of the Cult has over our perceptions and to show how that has led to the current organization of our economies and societies.
That's all. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Human civilisation 'will collapse' unless greed culture is stopped,
So let me get this straight. Unless the "greed culture" which is the major theme of the current Human civilisation, is stopped, Human civilisation 'will collapse'? What?? So let it collapse along with the "greed culture". Done. Problem solved. Pay me. In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.
Pay me
See !! That's the problem. right there keep to the Fen Causeway
