All world leaders want to maintain their populations and to increase economic activity. This has always been and will always be. The suggestion by the United Nations, the World Bank, and other development organizations that in a couple of hundred years all nations will mysteriously reduce their populations and economic activity is absurd. No industrial nation has ever done this willingly, or even proposes to do it. All industrial nations are addicted to and committed to economic growth.
All political leaders point to increased economic activity as a measure of success.
It is worse than a lie it is a pernicious deception with fatal consequences for the planet and all its future generations of life. After the passage of time shows this to be a total fallacy, it will be too late the species will be gone, and the planet s biodiversity gone. The only time for effective action is now, before the species are gone and global warning is extreme. This opportunity is knocking only once. At current rates of consumption, the world s petroleum reserves will be exhausted in about fifty years.