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Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability
Why We Consume: Neural Design and Sustainability Exponential economic growth is rapidly destabilizing the biosphere. Among the many factors that stimulate such growth is the human tendency to consume goods and services far beyond what is required to meet basic needs. We have to grasp what drives this tendency in order to manage it. The […]
Nicole Foss presents: Challenge and Choices
Nicole Foss presents: Challenge and Choices Nicole Foss: After more than 30 years of exponential growth, gargantuan resource demand and increasingly frenetic consumption, we have now reached, or are reaching, an array of limits to growth. During our long, debt-fuelled boom, we reached out spatially through globalisation to monetise as much global production as possible, in […]
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1
The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1 Intro A great deal of intelligence is invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Saul Bellow, 1976 More and more people (although not nearly enough) are coming to recognise that humanity cannot continue on its current trajectory, as the limits we face […]
Don’t be Fossil Fooled – It’s time to say goodbye.
Don’t be Fossil Fooled – It’s time to say goodbye. It’s time to make the call – fossil fuels are finished. The rest is detail. The detail is interesting and important, as I expand on below. But unless we recognise the central proposition: that the fossil fuel age is coming to an end, and within […]
It Is Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off All Of Our Debt
It Is Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off All Of Our Debt Did you know that if you took every single penny away from everyone in the United States that it still would not be enough to pay off the national debt? Today, the debt of the federal government exceeds $145,000 per household, and it is getting worse […]
Quote Of The Year. And The Next. And The One After
Quote Of The Year. And The Next. And The One After I very rarely read back any of the essays I write. But maybe that’s not always a good thing. Especially when they deal with larger underlying issues beneath the problems we find ourselves in, why these problems exist in the first place, and what […]
“Stop Being So Negative”: Putting It All Together
“Stop Being So Negative”: Putting It All Together Putting it all together Considering: 1) governments are unable to eliminate deficits 2) global government debt is increasing exponentially 3) 0% interest rates are allowing governments to borrow more to pay off old loans and fund deficits 4) Global growth is declining despite money printing and bailouts […]
We Live In An Era Of Dangerous Imbalances
We Live In An Era Of Dangerous Imbalances And history shows they correct painfully The intervention by the world’s central banks has resulted in today’s bizarro financial markets, where “bad news is good” because it may lead to more (sorry, moar) thin-air stimulus to goose asset prices even higher. The result is a world addicted to debt […]
Canadian Chart Blast
Some interesting trends:
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever? « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever? « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy. Humanity is an irrational lot, prone to denial and short-termism. If rational arguments were primary catalysts for social change, perhaps a steady state economy would already be a reality. Research in behavioural economics and cognitive psychology […]
Energy Economics – Crash Course Chapter 19 | Peak Prosperity
Energy Economics – Crash Course Chapter 19 | Peak Prosperity. The central point to this latest video is this: as we’ve shown in previous chapters of the Crash Course, our global economy depends on continual growth to function. And not just any kind of growth; but exponential growth. But in order to grow, it must receive an […]
The Krugman Function – Transition Milwaukee
The Krugman Function – Transition Milwaukee. Fresh thinking is difficult to perform and is often poorly received, but is not without some pleasures as well. One can expect a distinct combination of frustration and satisfaction when toiling from within a new paradigm that is struggling for its first foothold on the long and hopeful ascent […]
