Economist Doug Reynolds talks about the roots of the current economic crisis.
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50 Ways You Can Be The Change
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Bring on the Recession
How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped?
However hard governments might work to reduce carbon emissions, they are battling the tide of economic growth. While the rate of growth in the use of energy declines as an economy matures, no country has yet managed to reduce energy use while raising gross domestic product. A recession in the rich nations might be the only hope we have of buying the time we need to prevent runaway climate change.
Growth threatens benefits of green IT
The IT industry risks being trapped in a vicious circle where the worldwide growth in the use of computers erodes any gains in lowered carbon emissions from more energy efficient products.

Farmer: "Developers Don't Give a Crap."
Valuable land, once used to grow food, increasingly converted into suburbia. Where is our food going to come from in the future, China?