"harry" wrote in message
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On May 21, 9:33 pm, "Simon Brown" wrote:
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On May 20, 9:42 am, The Natural Philosopher
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On 20/05/13 01:56, Simon Brown wrote:

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 19/05/13 17:07, harry wrote:
When/if the recession ends we will see the true price of energy.

the recession isn't a temporary pause in growth: It is the start of
'this is as good as it gets'.

No, all recessions come to an end eventually.

Well if they are in fact recessions...but what it its simply the end
of
an era? An era of growth?

Historically, many cultures that were once rich became poor and still
are poor.

Once people stop expecting growth to occur,

Growth will not stop.

Growrh MUST stop.
The planet is only as big as it is.

then we will start to see sane economic policy.

Fantasy, particularly in recessions.

Its people like you who are the problem, frankly.
We definitely need a zero growth economic system.

There is no such animal.

There'd better be.

There isn't.

Or we need/will get a war/pestilence to kill a few billions off.

No. Not one modern first world country is even self
replacing on population now if you take out immigration.

The birth rate is dropping now everywhere except
where the birth rate is right down in the noise now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...fertility_rate

The biggest country in the world fixed the population problem for them.