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The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth
THE FALLACY OF ENDLESS ECONOMIC GROWTH What economists around the world get wrong about the future. The idea that economic growth can continue forever on a finite planet is the unifying faith of industrial civilization. That it is nonsensical in the extreme, a deluded fantasy, doesn’t appear to bother us. We hear the holy truth […]
Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster
Limits to growth: policies to steer the economy away from disaster The earth is a finite place. If the rich nations in the world keep growing their economies by 2% each year and by 2050 the poorest nations catch up, the global economy of more than 9 billion people will be around 15 times larger than it is […]
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources Disproving the fatal assumption central planners make Author Kurt Cobb writes frequently on energy and the environment and warns that our current economic policy suffers from a fatal degree of magical thinking: sufficient new resources will emerge if the price is high enough. As any fourth grader will tell you, […]
Adjusting the Fifth to a Finite Planet, Part II
Adjusting the Fifth to a Finite Planet, Part II Editor’s Note: This is the second piece of a two-part post. You can read Part 1 here. Among the avenues by which Takings case law could be adapted to the reality of a finite planet are these three: One: Change the default by changing the definition of […]
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize: Chris Martenson | Peak Prosperity. At the essential center of the framework of the Crash Course is the almost insultingly simple idea that endless growth on a finite planet is an impossibility. It is so simple it could be worked out by a clever 4 year-old. And yet it […]
Olduvai IV: Courage
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