non-renewable materials

Dennis Meadows : Limits to Growth updated

I will not comment the whole speech made by Meadows as Harriet already did it. I am just impressed that although  big critics had been made on the former report, as did Friedrich von Hayek in his Nobel Prize reception “Pretense to knowledge”, Pr. Meadows haven’t lost any scientific credibility. I would nevertheless add some critics about the economic reasoning underlying the report.

R'09 Twin World Congress Opening

 Aside from a few minor hitches with the sound, the two congresses in Nagoya, Japan and Davos, Switzerland managed to connect seamlessly through high-definition technology to make an impressive start to the conference. The two keynote speakers, one from Nagoya and one from Davos, portrayed contrasting strategies for limiting our natural resource use-surely a good start to a few days of debate!
 

Syndicate content