http://marilynburgess.com/2009/06/passing-on-innovation-led-to-bankruptcy-for-an-american-icon/ Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:42:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://marilynburgess.com/2009/06/passing-on-innovation-led-to-bankruptcy-for-an-american-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-854 marilyn Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:58:21 +0000 http://marilynburgess.com/?p=108#comment-854 That's a good point Erin. The power of exponential growth is tremendous, and scary. Even living up in spacious Canada we can see the effects of our planet's ever growing population. It is hard to judge how close to the breaking point we are. Though, I don't think this is any reason to give up! This is the only place we have, and we have to do the best we can. Each of us must do our part. From all the work done by David Suzuki to help change our world for the better, it seems that he hasn't given up, and judging from your efforts to raise your beautiful daughter in an eco-friendly way (as documented in <a href="http://mamaberg.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">your blog</a>) I suspect you haven't quite given up either! That’s a good point Erin. The power of exponential growth is tremendous, and scary. Even living up in spacious Canada we can see the effects of our planet’s ever growing population. It is hard to judge how close to the breaking point we are. Though, I don’t think this is any reason to give up! This is the only place we have, and we have to do the best we can. Each of us must do our part. From all the work done by David Suzuki to help change our world for the better, it seems that he hasn’t given up, and judging from your efforts to raise your beautiful daughter in an eco-friendly way (as documented in your blog) I suspect you haven’t quite given up either!

]]> http://marilynburgess.com/2009/06/passing-on-innovation-led-to-bankruptcy-for-an-american-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-843 Mamaberg Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:32:48 +0000 http://marilynburgess.com/?p=108#comment-843 Interesting post. I tend to be a bit more pessimistic... I know we need innovation to progress, I think you're right about that. But lately I wonder if we haven't already gone too far in terms of over-consumption of resources like oil. I recall listening to a talk by David Suzuki a few years back in which he described exponential growth, like that which we are seeing today. He compared the growth of the human population to that of bacteria that grows exponentially each minute in a test tube. He said something like, "the thing about exponential growth is that one minute before the test tube begins to overflow, it's only half full, so there appears to be lots of room to expand..." that's the concern about our current rate of growth (population growth, urban growth, etc) it appears that we have space and time to fix the problems we've created by doing things like developing new greener technologies, but it may be that because we're growing so fast, we're one minute away from crisis without even realizing it! Interesting post. I tend to be a bit more pessimistic… I know we need innovation to progress, I think you’re right about that. But lately I wonder if we haven’t already gone too far in terms of over-consumption of resources like oil. I recall listening to a talk by David Suzuki a few years back in which he described exponential growth, like that which we are seeing today. He compared the growth of the human population to that of bacteria that grows exponentially each minute in a test tube. He said something like, “the thing about exponential growth is that one minute before the test tube begins to overflow, it’s only half full, so there appears to be lots of room to expand…” that’s the concern about our current rate of growth (population growth, urban growth, etc) it appears that we have space and time to fix the problems we’ve created by doing things like developing new greener technologies, but it may be that because we’re growing so fast, we’re one minute away from crisis without even realizing it!

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