Thanks for offering this. Joan >From: Ken Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Environmental Question Time, Monday 22nd October, >Oxford >Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:52:40 -0700 > >Claire writes: > > >Environmental Question Time, Monday, 22nd Oct, 5.15pm start. > > > >What's your top environmental question? What's the issue you'd like to >air > >in public? What are other people's priority concerns? Join in at > >'Environmental Question Time', the flagship event for Oxford >(University's) > >Environment Week. All welcome. > > > >Send your question NOW to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Date: Monday, 22nd October, 3rd Week > >Time: 5.00pm - 6.30pm, followed by a wine reception > >Venue: Zoology Department, South Parks Rd, Lecture Theatre A > >OK, I sent my question (reprinted below just for helluvit). I'm eagerly >awaiting their answer :-) ......Seriously, is there any plan for follow-up >with this group, or are they going to have a webcast of their discussion, >do their deliberations GO anywhere, etc etc.? > > >The dominant economic system of the West (and the direction that > >many developing countries would LIKE to grow) seems to be predicated > >on continual (i.e. infinite) GROWTH. Examples would be the common > >indicators of economic health (GNP) and the obsession of corporations > >and their shareholders with quarterly or annual profits. Isn't this > >economic system fundamentally at odds with the need for ecological > >and physical sustainability planet-wide? Put another way, doesn't a > >sustainable future demand a radical change in the economic systems > >of civilization? What form of economics could work, and how can > >the required changes be made (and made quickly enough) in the face > >of certain opposition from essentially every existing economic power > >on earth? > >
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