Catherine Case A look back: Rudd dodges hard questions at a Community cabinet. ( Here )
WITH the Community Cabinet due to take place in the city of Launceston where I live, I thought what better opportunity to ask a question of the Prime Minister about the government’s obsessive focus on economic growth and their apparent blindness to the realities of ecological limits?
I also wanted to try and ascertain whether they had any long term plan whatsoever to deal with projected population growth in Australia.
Would they even acknowledge it as an issue? No one in the mainstream media ever asks these questions, the paradigm of “perpetual growth” goes unchallenged.
It seems so blindingly obvious to me that endless growth is an impossibility. Why isn’t someone – anyone – in the government facing up to reality?
