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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future Pompeii, Italy (1992). Photo by author. Following on the heels of my Contemplation that looked at a Peak Oil article that focused upon whether our cities would ‘collapse’ or not as a result of waning hydrocarbons (see: Website; Medium; […]
The Bulletin: October 3-9, 2024
The Bulletin: October 3-9, 2024 Grid Apocalypse Hits Carolinas: 360 Substations Down, Power Restoration Could Take “Months” | ZeroHedge From a Bunker in Israel, American Empire is Over – Charles Nenner | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog Why Political “Solutions” Don’t Fix Crises, They Make Them Worse Bank Of America Customers Report Widespread Outage, Zero Balances | […]
Our Obsession With Economic Growth is Deadly
Our Obsession With Economic Growth is Deadly
The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth
The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth The country has 507 people per sq km, nearly five times the EU average, while liveable land is shrinking due to climate change © Harry Haysom The other morning I cycled around the Dutch town where I grew up. Behind our old […]
Peak oil, economic growth and the big lie
Peak oil, economic growth and the big lie In the commentary on Peak Oil recently published in the leading scientific journal Nature, James Murray (the founding director of the University of Washington’s Program on Climate Change) and David King (the Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford) made the following […]
This Time Is Not Different. More Debt, Less Growth
This Time Is Not Different. More Debt, Less Growth I remember that in 2009 three messages were constantly repeated: “In this crisis measures are different, because governments are investing in the recovery by increasing public spending,” “the funds from stimulus plans will strengthen the recovery “and “central banks help a stronger recovery by lowering rates […]
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die. But there’s a deeper problem. New scientific research confirms that capitalism’s structural obsession with endless growth is destroying the very conditions […]
Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability
Why economic growth is not compatible with environmental sustainability Academic FEDERICO DEMARIA will be addressing staff at the European Commission today in a keynote speech about the crucial issues of economic growth and environmental degradation. He asks, is the well-being of the individual, societies and nations possible beyond economic growth? ‘Growth for the sake of […]
Carbon emissions reach record: How can we build solidarity to fight climate change?
Carbon emissions reach record: How can we build solidarity to fight climate change? When carbon emissions appeared to level off from 2014 through 2016, some people were hopeful that industrial civilization just might be able to decouple carbon emissions from economic growth. After all, the world economy had been growing and yet carbon emissions had not […]
Tax Cuts Without Reducing Government Outlays Is Not Possible
TAX CUTS WITHOUT REDUCING GOVERNMENT OUTLAYS IS NOT POSSIBLE According to many economic experts and commentators, an effective way to generate economic growth is through the lowering of taxes. The lowering of taxes, it is held, is going to place more money in consumer’s pockets thereby setting in motion an economic growth. This way of […]
Big Trouble in Little China
A worker cleans the promenade in Shanghai on July 24, 2014. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) Big Trouble in Little China The country’s economic problems are starting to escalate. China is a country of extremes, especially regarding economic forecasts. There are those who think “China will take over the world” with its technocratic central planning. Then there […]
Debt and Deficits: They’re Unsustainable
Debt and Deficits: They’re Unsustainable Economic growth won’t save us, not without serious cuts in government spending. The most important issue facing America today is the national debt and increasing federal deficits. Our national debt now exceeds yearly gross domestic product (GDP). The U.S is the wealthiest country in the world, but our government has […]
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant
That Green Growth at the Heart of the Green New Deal? It’s Malignant A burgeoning save-the-climate effort called the Green New Deal, explains Vox’s David Roberts, “has thrust climate change into the national conversation, put House Democrats on notice, and created an intense and escalating bandwagon effect. … everyone involved in green politics is talking about the […]
The greatest good for the greatest number: A doctrine of acceptable losses
The greatest good for the greatest number: A doctrine of acceptable losses In 1776 philosopher Jeremy Bentham wrote a phrase that continues to be central to our modern way of thinking: “[I]t is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.” That phrase has morphed into the familiar one […]
