We are what we measure

Over the last two hundred years or so, we in the West have become an extraordinarily short-sighted culture. What is worse, we have packaged it and exported it until it has become a global culture and arrived at what the IPCC report described as "code red".

Two different sets of data, The first is so staggering it can only really be understood as a graph - the increase in World GDP over the last two millennia.