"[Sustainable green technology] is a fantasy. Even if we manage to increase the efficiency of energy use dramatically, use of renewable energies much more, and painful sacrifices to limit our consumption, we have virtually no chance to prolong the life of the current system. Oil production will be reduced approximately by half in the next 20 years, even with the exploitation of oil sands or shale oil. It just happens too fast ... The World Bank director has explained to me, the problem of peak oil is not discussed in his institution, it is simply taboo. Whoever will try to anyway, is fired or transferred. After all, Peak Oil destroys the belief in growth. You would have to change everything ... We are basically now just as programmed as 10,000 years ago. If one of
our ancestors could be attacked by a tiger, he also was not worried
about the future, but his present survival. My concern is that for
genetic reasons we are just not able to deal with such things ... There’s nothing we could do. People always say again: We need to save
our planet. No, we do not. The planet is going to save itself already.
It always has done. Sometimes it took millions of years, but it
happened. We should not be worried about the planet, but about the human
species."
Zum Interview mit Prof. Dennis Meadows, erschienen auf System Failure (31. März 2013) »
Anmerkung: An dieser Stelle sei auf "Saving the Planet" des sozialkritischen Künstlers George Carlin hingewiesen.
Zum Interview mit Prof. Dennis Meadows, erschienen auf System Failure (31. März 2013) »
Anmerkung: An dieser Stelle sei auf "Saving the Planet" des sozialkritischen Künstlers George Carlin hingewiesen.
