Long Beach, California—Paul Gilding wants to scare us. He wants to scare us into acting before it’s too late. “The Earth is Full. Full of us, full of our stuff. Full of our waste,” he said during his TED talk. In financial terms, we live on the Earth like we are spending 50 percent more than we earn.
Gilding has been agitating for sustainability long before most people became aware of the concept, and he has a bleak message for the prospects of the free market. Our economy is not sustainable, and woefully unprepared for hitting the Earth’s limits. It’s not just a little bit over the limits of sustainability, either—we are way beyond that.
from Ars Technica