Comments on: Powerdown Toolkit #4: Rethinking Energy http://zone5.org/2009/03/powerdown-toolkit-4-rethinking-energy/ ...on the edge between Nature and Culture Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:05:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pete Murphy http://zone5.org/2009/03/powerdown-toolkit-4-rethinking-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-37890 Pete Murphy Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:17:25 +0000 http://zone5.org/?p=423#comment-37890 <p>If we want to maintain a high standard of living and allow all people of the world to enjoy that same standard, then the focus needs to be on reducing total consumption by reducing our population. Reducing per capita consumption means a corresponding reduction in per capita employment - in other words, rising unemployment and poverty. At the same time, we need to shift to renewable forms of energy.</p> <p>Pete Murphy Author, "Five Short Blasts"</p> If we want to maintain a high standard of living and allow all people of the world to enjoy that same standard, then the focus needs to be on reducing total consumption by reducing our population. Reducing per capita consumption means a corresponding reduction in per capita employment – in other words, rising unemployment and poverty. At the same time, we need to shift to renewable forms of energy.

Pete Murphy Author, “Five Short Blasts”

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