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There are 1,000 times too many humans to be sustainable. (via The Morning News)

…Rees, however, said that we may be “fatally successful.” He agrees that industrial society as presently configured is unsustainable.

“In the past 25 years we have adopted a near-universal myth of ’sustainable development’ based on continuous economic growth through globalization and freer trade,” Rees wrote in a recent Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society paper. “Because the assumptions hidden in the globalization myth are incompatible with biophysical reality the myth reinforces humanity’s already dysfunctional ecological behavior.”

Rees believes unsustainability is, in part, driven by a natural predisposition to expand, in the same way that bacteria or any other species will multiply. He claims that it is an old problem, reflected in the collapses of numerous civilizations, such as the early human population at Easter Island.

We are indeed eating ourselves out of house and home. Keep this in mind on Friday, by the way, which is Buy Nothing Day. Join me in taking just one day to buy nothing.