The Schizophrenic Society
Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.
limits to growth
Born to Buy?
With Christmas past, household consumption reached its yearly peak in many countries. Whilst this celebration still brings up a homely picture of tranquility, the truth is that Christmas is characterized more by frenzied shopping, stress and overspending than by peace and quality time.
Review: Cold, Hungry and in the Dark by Bill Powers and Snake Oil by Richard Heinberg
There has always seemed to be something deeply wrong with fracking for oil and natural gas.
Richard Heinberg: Puerto Rico in a world in transition
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
In place of growth, a steady-state economy
A Manchester where all people can thrive without harming the planet? Mark Burton introduces the Steady State Manchester Project…
How I Became an Ex-Liberal
The issue of our collective state of denial had been bothering me for a year or two by the time Michael Moore showed up in Madison.
Unsustainable Farming: From Bird Droppings to Corporate Agriculture
The discovery of new lands to exploit, and new energy sources, helped reinforce the notion that human societies can always find a way around limitations upon its growth.
Care for the earth
Are values more important during times of scarcity, and how must our values change if we are to survive?
Unsustainability Now!
What will happen when an unsustainable system attempts to keep running as if the resources necessary for its continuation still existed?
Economic Growth: A Social Pathology
We have built our society, economy, and belief systems around the benefits and sustainability of economic growth. As further growth endangers our welfare by destroying the earth’s ecology upon which we are dependent, the inability to move away from such growth is truly pathological.
At the edge of time
An interpretation of the recent crisis as due to mineral scarcity.
Plundering the planet: a report to the Club of Rome
We have been acting with mineral resources as if we were pirates looting a captured galleon: grabbing everything we can, as fast as we can. It it is the subject of a book that is the result of a research program sponsored by the Club of Rome and that has involved me and 16 co-authors.
