Aristotle knew of insatiability only as a personal vice he had no inkling of the collective, politically orchestrated insatiability that we call economic growth.

But, given European governments behavior, the urgent question presents itself Do these governments have any inkling of what is at stake at the table where they sit playing roulette with history?

COPENHAGEN Thirty years ago, the world got its first inkling of impending catastrophe when five young gay men in Los Angeles were struck down by the illness that became known as HIV AIDS.

Aristotle knew of insatiability only as a personal vice he had no inkling of the collective, politically orchestrated insatiability that we call economic growth. The civilization of always more would have struck him as moral and political madness.