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Re:    Herbert Gruhl said it all: "Ein Planet wird geplundert" (The Planet is Being Plundered)
Date: Monday 19 March 07

In 1975 (32 years ago!) Herbert Gruhl published the German equivalent of Dennis Meadow's "The Limits to Growth". I cannot remember any of the details, just the title of the book, "Ein Planet wird geplundert" (The Planet is Being Plundered), which says it all. What more do you need to know? That is what we are doing - quite literally - plundering our planet; only its not just our planet, but also belongs (or should do) to those who come after us.

Plundering our planet - that's what we were doing 32 years ago; it's what our parents and grandparents were doing 50 years ago; it is what we are still doing today; and the way things look at the moment, it is what we will carry on doing until there is nothing left to plunder.

We think that we are so civilized, as we enjoy the spoils of our plundering, but really we are just bandits, living the high life at someone else's expense - that of our own children, grandchildren and descendents.

What a wretched and pathetic species we turned out to be. Supposedly, made in the image of God - blessed with knowledge and reason, but in fact, notwithstanding a prodigious animal intelligence, just a dumb, stupid animal, nevertheless. 

Planet Earth will soon be well rid of us. She will need a few million years to recover fully from our brief but devastating rein, but recover she will - and hopefully never bring forth the likes of us again!

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