QUESTION:

Environmental concerns and economic growth cannot co-exist. Do you agree?

ANSWER:

I disagree because economic growth and environmentalism not only co-exist, they are causally related. It is only after a society gets rich from economic growth that they can afford to play these eco waco games as masters and caretakers of nature.

The poor are just trying to survive as part of nature and not as the caretakers of nature.

Bottom line: Economic growth and eco wacko activsm must co-exist because economic growth is needed to develop the eco wacko value system and lifestyle.