Growth and Laissez-faire
How do you envision a successful economy without continuous growth?
limits to growth
If Overpopulation Isn’t the Problem, What’s the Question?
Since the end of the 18th century, when Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population, there’s been controversy regarding the concept of “carrying capacity,”…
Twenty (Important ) Concepts I Wasn’t Taught in Business School – Part I
Around 30% of matriculating undergraduate college students today choose a business major, yet ‘doing business’ without knowledge of biology, ecology, and physics entirely misses first principles ~ my too long but also too short summary of the important things I wasn’t taught in business school is below.
Albert Bartlett: On message about exponential growth to the end
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"in 1969. The lecture begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
Stranger in a strange land
Everything pulses, and pulses maximize the flow of power in systems. I pulsed in a big way this year.
Approaching a Steady State Economy, Part 1 — Getting Around
How would a non-growing economy function?
The Real Population Problem
Sometimes considered a taboo subject, the issue of population runs as an undercurrent in virtually all discussions of modern challenges.
The End of the Age of Extraction
Today’s global economy is causing shortages of natural resources (both renewable and nonrenewable) as we come to the end of what might be called the Age of Extraction.
Wanted: political leader with a vision for a sustainable future
A sustainable future remains within our grasp but – thanks to the way human brains work – only governments can implement many of the necessary strategies.
The Peak Oil Crisis: A Review of Richard Heinberg’s ‘Snake Oil’
The heart of “Snake Oil” is directed at countering the optimistic projections for production of oil and gas by hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Well and Truly Fracked
Heinberg makes four points in the book, each of which could usefully be put on the business end of a branding iron and applied to the tender backsides of pundits and politicians alike.
The Fracking of “The Limits to Growth”
Does a new extractive technology arrive before or after limits to growth in resource throughput are in place?
