I am seventy two years old this month, the population of the US has increased from 150 million to 330 million in my lifetime. I see little that is desirable with the attendant sprawl and ravaging of resources this increase requires. Our economic model is predicated on expansion; clearly we need to advance a more responsible economic model that can allow the world to prosper while reducing world population. The "economically" successful live lives fit for kings and queens (multiple homes and carbon footprints commensurate) while environmental degradation in the developing world condemns billions to lives of desperation, disease and famine. The swells currently gathered in Davos will praise themselves and their economic models, while coupling these observations with steadfast adherence to our current economic doctrine of expansion and inequality. The fleet of private jets parked at the alpine tarmac signify economic success to many, but they also signify blind indifference to the plight of Earth.  It's easy to talk a good game when you own the economic model.

I am seventy two years old this month, the population of the US has increased from 150 million to 330 million in my lifetime. I see little that is desirable with the attendant sprawl and ravaging of resources this increase requires. Our economic model is predicated on expansion; clearly we need to advance a more responsible economic model that can allow the world to prosper while reducing world population. The "economically" successful live lives fit for kings and queens (multiple homes and carbon footprints commensurate) while environmental degradation in the developing world condemns billions to lives of desperation, disease and famine. The swells currently gathered in Davos will praise themselves and their economic models, while coupling these observations with steadfast adherence to our current economic doctrine of expansion and inequality. The fleet of private jets parked at the alpine tarmac signify economic success to many, but they also signify blind indifference to the plight of Earth.  It's easy to talk a good game when you own the economic model.

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