Well, I for one manage to be famously well-dressed on a very small wardrobe, much of which has already lasted for years and years. I do not use very much plastic, either.
But for all Sir David Attenborough's eminence in several fields, he is not some oracle. The problem with the world is not that it has too many people in it. Which people, exactly? We all know the answer to that one.
Instead, we need to celebrate the full compatibility between the highest view of human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development, and the most active concern for the conservation of the natural world and of the treasures bequeathed by such expansion and development in the past.
Within that, we need an approach to climate change which protected and extended secure employment with civilised wages and working conditions, which encouraged economic development around the world, which upheld the right of the working classes and of nonwhite people to have children, which held down and as far as practicable reduced the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, and which refused to restrict travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich.
And as for our having only one planet, that human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development must now include space exploration, perhaps fuelled by, and fuelling, fusion power.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and our people need to hold the balance of power in it. My crowdfunding page is here, or email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com for other options. That address accepts PayPal.
Instead, we need to celebrate the full compatibility between the highest view of human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development, and the most active concern for the conservation of the natural world and of the treasures bequeathed by such expansion and development in the past.
Within that, we need an approach to climate change which protected and extended secure employment with civilised wages and working conditions, which encouraged economic development around the world, which upheld the right of the working classes and of nonwhite people to have children, which held down and as far as practicable reduced the fuel prices that always hit the poor hardest, and which refused to restrict travel opportunities or a full diet to the rich.
And as for our having only one planet, that human demographic, economic, intellectual and cultural expansion and development must now include space exploration, perhaps fuelled by, and fuelling, fusion power.
Another hung Parliament is coming, and our people need to hold the balance of power in it. My crowdfunding page is here, or email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com for other options. That address accepts PayPal.
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