Fusion Energy: A Different Take
By Gary Gardner, Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy
Indeed, one thing seems indisputable: Unleashing fusion in an unbounded, growth-driven economy would be a wholesale disaster.
Tag: limits to growth
A review of One Hundred Years of Insanity, by Bob Lloyd
By Murray Grimwood, Resilience.org
This book – and others it references, particularly Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems’ - should be a standard read for university students, but I suspect it will only be read by those who are already-there, or at least already well-on-the-way.
Why Understanding Limits Is the Key to Humanity’s Future
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
Taoist sages proclaimed, “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Don’t just respect limits; celebrate them and work in harmony with them.
An Inconvenient Apocalypse with Bob Jensen (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
By Jason Bradford, Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity. With a title like that, Jason and Bob have lots of heavy ground to cover, including overshoot, the limits to growth, and the cascading environmental and social crises of our times.
¨The Limits To Growth¨ — 50 Years Later
By Victor M. Toledo, Voices for Mother Earth
Five decades have passed since publication of the study The Limits To Growth. The more time passes, the more it is recognized as the work that profoundly shook the economic foundations of the modern world and its worldview
The Cult of Civilization
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
This post offers ten heretical statements that seem obvious to me, but tend to produce emotionally charged reactions by members of the cult of civilization. Watch yourself, now.
Degrowth: What sorcery is this?
By Amerissa Giannouli, Inter Alia
Degrowth is about redefining how things work in the current unsustainable system, focusing on the values of cooperation and sharing, as well as social and environmental justice.
The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Common Dreams
No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today's nation-states and cities.
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.
“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…