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In the Long Run. . .
Judah Grunstein
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30 Oct 2008
. . .Keynes was right. According to a new report,
at the rate we're consuming the earth's resources, we'll need two
planets by the year 2030. The authors cleverly call it an "ecological credit
crunch."
My cosmological worldview isn't so species-centric as to be terribly
concerned about the planet Earth. When people say we must save the
planet, what they're really saying is we've got to save ourwelves. The
planet did just fine without us for billions of years. And while it's a
wonderfully beautiful place that we really ought to take better care
of, it will do just fine without us, too.
But just for the sake of a good debate, what great philosophical
quarrels would be resolved were humans to go the way of the dinosaurs? And in whose favor?