Thinking about a finite planet

I keep wondering just what it is about the words "finite planet" that so many business people seem not to understand.

Just as the human body cannot keep growing so it is with the economy.

We cannot go on consuming things as we have been doing.

I wonder whether people just do not think about the subject; whether they have been reared and encouraged not to think about it or whether they really do not understand what it means.

At present they seem to encourage growth at any cost.

More shops will need more people and then they need more shops and then more people and so the growth goes on, together with the pressure on the planet.

What about Peak Oil and Peak Phosphate?

Without oil, tourism as we know it will die or certainly change significantly and, without phosphate, we will all starve.

I notice that there are some business people around, who continue, as many businesses did in the past, to make a comfortable living and to be satisfied with this.

They do so by providing their customers with good service and with what they need at reasonable prices.

Email, 10 Aug 2010 Margaret Lund, Woy Woy Bay