Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012 (Ides at the House)
Our economy is based on a model of constant growth - growth in production, consumption and population. Economic growth has provided rising standards of living in the West and seen millions in China and India lifted out of poverty. This model has been disrupted in many countries by the global financial crisis, which is now seeing another round of casualties, particularly in Europe. Will things settle down with growth resuming, or will our economies bump up against a wall of finite resources? And if they do, what will this mean the global balance of power? Speaker - Richard Heinberg For more videos from Ideas at the House, check out our channel: http://www.youtube.com/ideasatthehouse Susbcribe to get new videos in your feed: http://www.youtube.com/subscribe_widget?p=ideasatthehouse Get a new talk every week on our podcast: Audio - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/sydney-opera-house-ideas-at/id640445035 Video - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/sydney-opera-house-ideas-at/id640444896 For more from Ideas at the House, visit: Ideas Hub - http://sydneyoperahouse.com/ideas Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/IdeasAtTheHouse Twitter - https://twitter.com/ideasatthehouse
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the most important thought of the talk: " Crisis will drive the planet to adaptation"
It is hideous to suggest that we will educate ourselves to the point of making a thoughtful and planned transition, we keep underestimating ignorance, people are way too fucking dumb...
And I'm not sure if hes aware of the zeitgeist movement... Peter joseph nails it! -
People are asleep. They want face reality. Mankind will survive but not with unlimited growth. Population will be reduced and it will either be natural reduction or unnatural horrific reduction. It could be pleasant if people choose to stop multiplying. If people keep multiplying it will be horrific. People seem to be ignoring the problem and that's not good for those in the future. Those you chose to pass on your stupid, cruel genes to. Screw the Catholic church. If you have two kids, wear a condom. Anyone that wants 10 kids on welfare sucks. If loving just two kids isn't enough, try loving your neighbor and I don't mean sexually.. One was good enough for me.
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The real problem is fucking in the front hole. Too many consumers. I think birth control has more energy benefits but then the 1% loses "consumers" as sheep, cattle, pigs, to harvest in their feed lot cities. Energy is not a price problem. Life is not a price problem. Life is an air, water, food calories problem. The game is not the score. It's really a money bubble, counterfeited to transfer wealth from Main Street to Wall Street. The real debt crisis is debt is not money. Gold and silver is money. The world is being warped and distorted by automation, mechanization, and using debt as money. In real silver money the Dow Stocks are not up from the 1960's. It's a debt bubble. It's all just a game. Good luck to us all. Good luck.
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Before any of the great ideas that this fine gentleman is talking about are given at least a good and strong consideration all the bad rats have to be exterminated. And by bad rats I mean the Rockefellers and all these other cancerous profit hunger families that dominate and destroy our economies. Get rid of the bad rats !!!!!
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Ha ! I thought that left-wing / liberal meant a collective mindset. However, judging by the comments here, it appears that anyone who doesn't believe in unlimited wealth is a pinko commie punk ! Also, a lot of beliefs in fantasy technology, being suppressed as conspiracy theories.
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There ARE a couple of viable fully developed energy producing technologies but they have been SUPPRESSED so that those made extremely rich by oil may continue to do so. Zero Point is one.
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I'm thinking the industrial age of exponential economic growth through the model of making ever more and more stuff in big centralized factories, mining the atmosphere, mining the water table, mining the biosphere, is about to give way to something else. This isn't to demonize the industrial age. Not only did we get a whole lot of stuff from the industrial age but we got a whole lot of knowledge. And now it's over and now it's onto something else. No, not some sort of utopian Age of Aquarius, but something else. What else? Well, perhaps we make take a lot at how biology makes a living. Take ordinary stuff, sunlight, and knowledge and you can have pretty much anything you like.
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ester islanders hear this similar speach to.
they still starved and died in proportion of 90 %.
there is no salvation.sooner or later all species reach an evolutionary dead end and perish.
buy guns build bunkers and save yourselfs. -
is interesting to note that Cuba is a country that in the circumstances of economic blockade has had the need to take action as recommended Richard
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This video is overall very enlightening.
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This entire series is pretty brilliant. Next up Christopher Hitchens. Capitalism....along with religion...are both archaic tools of current society's failure.
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This happened on Easter Island, one day they used up the last tree and they had no where to turn so they were wiped out, although this is a big planet it's only got so much to give, the problem is global population, no one is tackling the route cause of global warming, peak oil, indebtedness, water pollution and shortages, food production limits, destruction of animals and their right to a piece of this earth. As individuals we have so long on this planet so just enjoy it, the same is likely true for our race, we are only part way through our evolution, maybe self replicating self aware nano robots could populate the Galaxy but it won't be us in our current form we prob have 50-100 years of stability maximum before our population has to go back to a sustainable 1 billion or less, I just wonder which crisis will hit us first or if the globe will get rid of its itch on its own.
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Typical leftist idiot who's more interested in destroying capitalism than telling the truth that even a 1% population growth eventually the planet will be over populated.
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Another hour of left wing ignorance and delusion. What's not to like?
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Your economic model doesn't take into account that corporations are being taxed at the lowest rate since 1983. Your lecture is just more smoke blowing up my skirt.
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Richard correct about the funny money system it smells like an old fish.
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I dont know if Studebaker could produce 100,000 units per annum, accoring to official studebaker production figures in 1910 there where 15000 made. Fast and loose with the truth Richard
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Shame the frackers have discovered 80 years of the stuff. The peakers now look like pariahs crying wolf.
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Thee is no limit to the amount of gold & silver that can be brought to the market for transactions. PM shortage is a downright lie propagated by bankers who rape & pillage the world. All they have to do is price it properly. A single ounce of gold / silver can be stretched for miles without losing the properties. A few hundred kilos of gold or silver can actually cover the entire earth. When you add copper every person in the world can have real money. The rest is all BS. The entire 7 billion people in the world can be fitted , shoulder to shoulder into Zanzibar a very small island. Any idiot should now see the bountifulness of PM's. But of course when bankers and governments can just enlarge the debt like magicians and have hard working slaves to serve them and their generations forever, why bother about educating the public and lose their power to live like emperors?
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