Consumption and inordinate demand on resources explored in Shepparton

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onsumption and the inordinate demand it puts on the world’s resources will be explored in Shepparton later this month.

Writer, teacher, editor and environmentalist, Kerryn Higgs, will talk about her new book, “Collision Course: Endless Growth on a FinitePlanet” on Wednesday, April 29, at the GoTAFE auditorium at 6:30 for 7:00pm.

Kerryn, who graduated from the University of Melbourne with honours in history and English, also graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Diploma in Environmental Studies.

Meanwhile, the International Society for Local Futures says, in its story headed: “The Global Economy’s ‘Impeccable Logic’” that there will never be enough resources to bring all those billions of people (those people who are becoming expendable every year) up to the levels of income and consumption common in the west.

“This,” the story adds, “is something that even pie-in-the-sky economists who dream of endless “sustainable growth” must realize.”

Kerryn, who is being brought to Shepparton by both the GV Community Fund and Slap Tomorrow, was recently appointed a Fellow of the International Centre of the Club of Rome.

Tickets, which will soon be available at $10 each from Collins Booksellers in Maude St, the GV Community Fund and Slap Tomorrow members, will include a light supper.