"killing people" ArgumentList population ethics
  Growth argument "Internalise environmental costs in the prices":   (D/F)

Question asked at a WTO public forum debate: "Do you believe growth can continue?" Answer given: "Yes I believe, provided the environmental costs are internalised in the prices of goods and services." (Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, 24 September 2008) Mr Pascal Lamy forgot that it is about non-renewable resources, minerals, water, land, soils, biodiversity, a normal climate. The question was introduced by a statement that that economic growth invariably and always increases the pressures and environmental problems. All growth - economic expansion and population growth - increases the rates of resource use, mainly non-renewables. Once these resources are depleted, no money can buy them back. Audio (new window) Also see A glossary table of growth rates The Problem Is Simple: Too Many People, Too Much Stuff .

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