As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
From Susan George
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.
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