GDP is (almost) everything, and that’s the problem
By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium
The question asked by serious political economy now is not ‘how do we perpetuate growth’, but rather, if it will be degrowth by design, or by disaster.
Tag: limits to growth
“The Limits to Growth” after 50 years: More relevant than ever
By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
"The Limits to Growth" was a study of the future of the global economy. Its basic message was that growth could not continue to go on forever on a finite planet.
The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
While policy makers have failed to prevent sustainability crises that have already begun and will almost certainly worsen throughout the remainder of the century, further inaction just ensures the worst possible outcome.
Complexity Revisited
By B, The Honest Sorcerer
Only after accepting that there are hard limits has humanity a chance to change course and adopt to a drastically changing landscape. Whether we can do that, is question to be pondered…
‘Support for a wellbeing economy grows’
By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org
It remains to be seen whether we will be able to effectively tackle the major challenges of nature and the environment in time. But the opportunities to do so will undoubtedly increase significantly.
Caught Up in Complexity
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
It turns out that what’s good for humans (in the short term) is not necessarily good for nature. In our current—utterly unsustainable—mode, choices that are thought to be good for humans are usually decidedly terrible choices for the planet and therefore ultimately bad for us, too. Take care of the real world first, and then you can have dessert.
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.
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
It’s past time to quit the cowboy economics, to hang up the hats and put away the spurs. To salvage both nature and humanity, pretty much everything about how we conduct human society must change. So what are you doing to help? I mean actually doing?
Are There Limits to Economic Growth?
By Richard E. Vodra, Advisor Perspectives
We get a startling overview of a self-directing complex system integrating economics and the physical world in Carey King’s recent book: The Economic Superorganism: Beyond the Competing Narratives on Energy, Growth, and Policy.
A Prayer for Nonbelievers
By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia
Maybe we need to let go of the comforts of fashionable cynicism and find the courage to affirm such things again. Maybe a prayer for nonbelievers, to quote a line from the song, is what we need just now. We’ll just have to see.
Revisiting The Limits to Growth
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The choice is that either we end up with unmanaged decline, which would be catastrophic, or a managed levelling out of our economies, shaped by a shift in social values and expectations.
The century of limits
By Juan Bordera Romá, Fastlove Studios
We have to assume that we have reached the century of limits, and the current model is no good for us. We have to plan and try to redistribute while reducing our impact.