“Here’s the bad news for all of you: We’ve reached the end of growth. Raising people out of poverty and maintaining Western standards of consumption are simply no longer possible. That’s why I didn’t want to come to this bullshit charade. Frankly, you people are exactly the reason real action on our ecological situation cannot move forward, because the only real way to do it is to not have lone wealthy individuals consuming the resources of small nations, which as far as I can tell is the premise of this entire gathering.
