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September 6, 2010
A nice moment during bad weather.
We have a few days of Spring sunshine, then more bad weather.
The sign posts in Leunig's cartoon --appalling, terrible, deplorable, abysmal--- are my reactions to free market economists, such as Stephen Kirchner at the Centre for Independent Studies, who write about a Big Australia enabling creativity and innovation to drive economic growth without mentioning Australia's finite natural resources, the damage to our ecosystems from past economic growth based on the exploitation of natural resources, or the effects of climate change.
Creativity and innovation is not linked to sustainability at all. There is no mention of sustainability. He's a Julian Simon fan and Simon argues in The Ultimate Resource that in the contest between resource scarcity and human ingenuity, Simon bets the farm on the ability of intelligent people to overcome their problems.
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