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richard

28 November 2007 - 9:52pm

George Monbiot's book "Heat" http://www.energybulletin.net/22176.html is the short answer to the question "How do we avoid cooking ourselves?"

Brendan was questioning how we can save the planet without wrecking the economy. This is an erroneous question, because if we wreck the planet, the economy is automatically wrecked. http://www.greenhealth.org.uk/GreenEconom.htm Green Economics is economics based on ecology. The two are sister disciplines.

It is quite true that oil and coal sales must plummet, but sales of alternative technologies will soar, and there will be net job gains, since green technologies and processes are generally more labour intensive that high technology processes such as oil drilling and nuclear power.

The key to the change to a green economy is the paradigm shift that Paul Rogers mentions - a shift away from militaristic control to cooperation in a common goal of sustainability, environmental protection and restoration. We have to realise that we can either die from militarism, or live by cooperation.