In any
conversation about the future direction of energy policy, it is crucial to face
the hard reality that the loss of biodiversity and the unfolding global
extinction crisis are the direct result of the overdevelopment of civilisation,
including the human demographic explosion. Our insistence on continually
growing the economy has left the natural world, upon which civilisation is wholly
dependent, in a precarious and degraded condition. The ugly manifestation of
planetary overshoot are to be seen across the globe. Overscaled, outsized,
overdeveloped are the adjectives of the age. If one cannot see it, then one is
not looking.
Doug Tompkins in the forward to the 2012 book edited by Tom Butler, Daniel Lurch and
George Wuerthner and published by The Foundation for Deep Ecology in
collaboration with Watershed Media and the Post Carbon Institute.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Energy-Reader-ebook/dp/B00AXS5IRE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370460662&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Energy+Reader
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