Defining “Economic Development” in Statutory Law: Content and Strategy
The only way to arrive at a safe, sustainable, steady state economy is with substantial behavioral and political reform.
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Guess What Has Decoupled from Economic Growth?
To promote both human health and environmental quality, countries would focus not on growing the GDP, but rather on different goals including education.
A Steady State Sustains All Boats
Indeed, inequality—of resource use, but also of income and wealth—is extremely high today and is actually worsened by economic growth.
It’s Getting to Look a Lot like Degrowth: Part 1
QED, civilization — as we know it today — cannot survive without economic growth. Ironically, that’s something pretty much everyone can agree on.
On planning and disaster: Notes from an earthquake
Such an opposition will become increasingly crucial as the forces of climate catastrophe and capitalism will, at least in the near future, continue to produce disasters in Turkey and abroad.
Why We Can’t Just Do It: The Truth about Our Failure to Curb Carbon Emissions
We’re at a crisis point. A sacrifice is needed. Only a sacred cow will do. Economic growth is our society’s most sacred of cows. And guess what? The cow is sick anyway.
A road map that misses some turns
Mark Jacobson’s new book, greeted with hosannas by some leading environmentalists, is full of good ideas – but the whole is less than the sum of its parts.
Profits of Utopia
What led to the twentieth century’s rapid economic growth? And what are the prospects for that kind of growth to return?
The Final Doubling
Re-localize, reduce, repair, and reuse. Build resilience. Become more independent of the monetary economy in any neighborly ways you can.
Why the lights are going out on Britain’s asset-stripped nation
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
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
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.