Atelier 9, article 3

© Susan George :
(from The Lugano Report, on Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century, 1999)

The world now produces in less than two weeks the equivalent of the entire physical output of the year 1900. Economic output (or throughput , which conveys a more dynamic sense of the process of resources capture, transformation and disposal) doubles approximately every 25 to 30 years. Early in the next century, the scale of activity will strain biospheric limits and even the capacity of the planet to sustain life.

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