By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Richard Heinberg
The “maximum power principle” may sound like the doctrine of an evil supervillain, but it actually applies to all living creatures. The principle states that biological systems organize to increase power whenever constraints allow.
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?
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Society is producing too many elite people, and their decisions are causing extreme inequality, which is one of the key components of today’s sustainability crisis.
By Elia Valentini, University of Essex
If we are serious about guaranteeing a decent future to our families and those who will come after us, we must change our societies at large.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
In this aptly titled book, University of Texas research scientist Carey W. King argues that the modern-day global economy is a superorganism.
By David Crossley, Resilience.org
The message in this book is simple: There are hard physical limits to the growth of available energy to power our civilization and these will probably be seriously in effect by the end of the 21st century.
By Burç Köstem, Marx & Philosophy
The wager of the book then, is that environmentalist movements need an alternative vision of limits that begins not from a premise of nature as scarce but rather as abundant, and of limitation not as enforced by outside conditions but rather adopted intentionally as an exercise of political autonomy.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
In this post, I take a bit more time to introduce new elements in the book that Do the Math readers have not seen represented in some form in earlier posts. In other words: what new insights or calculations lurk within the book?
By Sonja Hennen, Degrowth.de
In order to overcome social and environmental injustices, we have no choice but to abandon the naturalized and structuralized notions that equate GDP growth with social progress and sincerely aim to conceive of alternatives.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
We can’t know for sure, of course, whether the climate cataclysm will destroy scientific knowledge. But what we can see is that we are on a so-far unwavering path to climate catastrophe...
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Let’s start with what’s fairly clear: There is no hope that a population of eight billion people with the current level of aggregate consumption today can continue indefinitely.
By Brian Davey, Feasta
In effect the current debt is managed by borrowing from the future, on the assumption that the future will be better off. But the underlying trend based on an energy analysis tells us a different story.