The Final Doubling
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Re-localize, reduce, repair, and reuse. Build resilience. Become more independent of the monetary economy in any neighborly ways you can.
Tag: economic growth
Why the lights are going out on Britain’s asset-stripped nation
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Electricity supply, one of the systemic flaws in the UK’s failing economy, looks increasingly like it could fracture this Winter – and without accepting why that model is broken that cannot be avoided.
How Fossil Fuels Made the Human Race Dependent on a Finite Resource
By Dan Sally, Carey W. King, You Don't Have to Yell
Carey King of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin discusses how the last 70 years of economic and population growth have been fueled by the transition to petroleum, how a decreasing supply of it has increased political polarization, and what the future might hold as supplies continue to dwindle.
Inflation, Scarcity and the Road to Survival
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
Those communities that reject business as usual and cut their energy spending and all the materialist values that go with it, just might survive the long emergency and write a different ending to this story.
Ukraine: Putin’s Lebensraum
By Brian Czech, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
At this point in history, war is inevitable as long as nations are determined to grow their economies. Economic growth starts at the trophic base; that is, with agricultural surplus. In other words, a bigger economy requires more lebensraum.
Climate change and the limits of economic growth
By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus
The only effective way to control carbon emissions, as well as related problems of pollution and biodiversity loss, is to address “overshoot,” the unconstrained use of energy and material resources well beyond planetary limits, particularly in the richer parts of the world.
The black elephant in the room
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
The Black Elephant In The Room, in this case, is that nothing grows forever. Unlike what our system – the Elephant in The Room – pretends to do, which is designed to do so and doesn’t know how to slow down.
If It’s Profitable, Is It Really Sustainable?
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
That an economic activity has to be profitable is considered a truism, something taken for granted and not reflected upon. But what if the opposite is the case?
From What If to What Next: Kate Soper and Tim Jackson
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
Might this be the time to forever do away with the idea that the only way to measure our progress, cultural, social, spiritual, economic, is purely by how much bigger our economy is than it was last year?
The Collapse of Rhetoric. Can Economists and Ecologists Talk to Each Other?
By Katy Shields, Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
At the time of Seneca, rhetoric was perhaps the main skill of a man of culture: the capability of debating was valued and practiced.
Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
The Nottingham Economic Recovery and Renewal Consultation – Part Three
By Brian Davey, Feasta
Promoting economic growth is unethical because economic activity has overshot the carrying capacity of the biosphere and is degrading the ecological system.