Just a few thoughts

December 8, 2009 by Giedo

Worldwide there are at least 20 million jobs gone after 1 year crisis.
The ILO (International Labor Organisation) forsees no recovery before 2013 and is afraid the final number can reach 43 million.

The politics and business of climate change...
Will the world's largest global warming summit, which is now happening in Copenhagen, be just another milepost or a turning point?

How to reconcile a revival of the economic growth which , in the mind of the status quo, seems necessary to decrease the jobless rate, with sustainable solutions to reduce global warming, to cut carbon and fossil-fuel consumption?

The era of cheap energy (oil) is over, it covered barely a period of 150 years in human history, enough to cause a never seen revolution (and dependence) in human society. Thanks to cheap oil we were able to achieve unimaginable economical growth year after year.
Can the planet (and its resources) stand our expectation of persistent growth?

Cheap oil (and labor) has led to cheap computer chips, cheap networks and now some (intellectuals who get too much paid to remain connected with real life) are concluding the 'Future is Free' and proclaim we, human beings, can forget our sculptured idea of scarcity. Could this be shortsighted and unilaterally thinking, based on a naive assumption cheap energy will be available forever?

If we are running out of cheap oil, if the planet can't stand unbridled economic growth any longer, how will 20 million jobless (but the others too) find a decent existence in the (near) future?

Will we stubbornly proceed searching Fake Real and/or Real Fake solutions for our human needs or will we get the guts to switch to Real Real ones?

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