And despite the Malthusian gloom of the last four decades, the trends in this direction are still continuing. He does an excellent job of reducing complex environmental issues to sloganeering. Others are the result of our coming to grips with mistakes of the past, such as inappropriate land management in the case of arable land degradation in Australia. There is neither the will to reduce energy consumption, nor any concerted attempt to harness renewable sources, Douglas says. More environmental sloganeering.
Wind farms absorb a lot of tax dollars, even if they don t produce much electricity.
The French, who produce some 80 per cent of their electricity from nuclear fission, sell electricity to countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium where renewable investments aren t cutting it. I suspect not. The benefits of over-consumption are being reaped by the wealthy and the ill effects being felt by the poor. This is politics, Dr Douglas, not science. The use of the term over consumption suggests that there is some optimum level of consumption, and that you know it is less than current.