The speed and extent of the financial sector's massive bailout shows what is possible when society perceives a calamitous problem and rises swiftly to the challenge. If fat cat bankers are deserving, the biosphere and global ecological systems are much more worthy of a bailout. Global ecological sustainability is threatened [action] by a massive ecological bubble [search] -- whereby there are not enough intact global terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems to maintain life.
Now this -- the destruction of our very being -- is a crisis worthy of some serious emergency funding. A recent Guardian column shows what the $2-4 trillion financial bailout could achieve if invested for the environment [ark] . It notes funding on this "scale to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect nature...
The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubble
Excerpt from "Earth Meanders" personal essay by Ecological Ecological 's President, Dr. Glen Barry: Ecological overshoot whereby humanity exceeds the Earth's carrying capacity is the mother of all "bubbles". Within the current sub-prime mortgage and financial bubbles, and food and energy price increases, we are witnessing the logical and inevitable economic consequences of over-population, resource scarcity, inequitable and unreasonable consumption, and unsustainable economic growth. Growth and livelihoods based upon unreasonable presumptions of continued resource outputs from dwindling ecosystems are a dangerous, unprecedented "ecological bubble" that threatens...