Our Global Ponzi Scheme

By Lester Brown, originally published by Post Carbon Institute/Foundation for Deep Ecology

June 26, 2013

NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.

Download: Global Ponzi Scheme

Our Global Ponzi Economy — Lester Brown

 

Image RemovedRead more and take action at energy-reality.org

 

Lester Brown

Tags: ecological constraints, energy-reality, limits to growth

The Australian oyster reef revival

By Gennaro Tomma, Hakai Magazine

A successful restoration project on the Adelaide coast is raising hopes for the future of a long-lost ecosystem.

August 25, 2026

What fighting back actually looks like

By Jim Pattiz, More Than Just Parks

In an old cottonwood tree in Arizona, a small group of Americans are doing what lawsuits and letters couldn’t.

August 24, 2026

How an ecosystem restoration community is regenerating water cycles to mitigate forest fires in Portugal

By Nupur Jain, Ecosystem Restoration Communities

Rewetting and restoring wetlands, building small dams, and restoring streams create landscape-level discontinuities that interrupt how fire propagates by putting water back into the land rather than letting it run off. EcoAtivo is one organisation putting this directly into practice.

August 20, 2026