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The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy

January 8, 2021

The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy Endless growth is destroying the planet. We know how to stop it. ILLUSTRATION BY TIM LAHAN In July 1979, shortly after installing a set of solar panels over the West Wing, Jimmy Carter did something peculiar for a peacetime president. He asked Americans to sacrifice: to consume less, take public transit more, […]

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De-Growth is Feasible: People Want a New Economy

January 3, 2018

DE-GROWTH IS FEASIBLE: PEOPLE WANT A NEW ECONOMY Branko Milanovic has written a response to my argument.  As I read it, I was struck by two things – both quite significant. First, Branko now seems to accept the science on how “green growth” is not a thing, and has backed off his assumption that endless […]

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James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources

January 23, 2017

James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources And why we appear poised to repeat it  James Howard Kunstler returns to the podcast this week, observing that despite the baton being handed to a new American president, the massive predicaments we face as a society remain the same. And it seems the incoming administration […]

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Schools for Disaster: Rethinking Endless Growth in Education

July 29, 2015

Schools for Disaster: Rethinking Endless Growth in Education We have good reason to be proud of our North American education system. Especially in the 70 years since the end of the Second World War, it’s helped to create and sustain more prosperity for more people than ever before in history. Higher education, once the privilege […]

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Review of Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet)

April 4, 2015

Review of Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet) Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014 This informative book is about the rise of economic growth to the status of the number one goal of nations; the short-lived challenge to that dogma from the book The Limits to Growth (1972); the solidity of the Limits position as confirmed by […]

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If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest

April 3, 2015

If We’re Going To Borrow Against The Future, Let’s Borrow To Invest The are much better ways to spend the next $1 Trillion We are at an important juncture as a global society: either we immediately prioritize a new trajectory focused on creating a positive, functional future or — by continuing the consumptive, extractive, exploitative status […]

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