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It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion

July 30, 2022

It’s Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion July 28 is Earth Overshoot Day. As of that day, for the rest of 2022, human economic activity will be using the planet’s resources beyond its capacity to renew them. Humans now consume things like wood, water, and soil at nearly twice the rate […]

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A Response to McAfee: No, the “Environmental Kuznets Curve” Won’t Save Us

October 14, 2020

A RESPONSE TO MCAFEE: NO, THE “ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE” WON’T SAVE US A number of people have asked me to respond to a piece that Andrew McAfee wrote for Wired, promoting his book, which claims that rich countries – and specifically the United States – have accomplished the miracle of “green growth” and “dematerialization”, absolutely […]

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Welcome To Easter Island

October 4, 2020

Welcome To Easter Island We’re making the same mistakes with our essential resources Remember Easter Island? That place in the pages of National Geographic with the gigantic carved heads peeking up from grassy slopes? Whether you recall it or not, you live there — in a manner of speaking. Easter Island was colonized by the Rapanui, a […]

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Living the Good Life … Without Killing the Planet

July 17, 2020

Living the Good Life … Without Killing the Planet How can we live the ‘good life’ without killing the planet? My last post on energy and empire got me thinking about this question. We know that human welfare improves as we use more resources. But it’s suicidal for all of humanity to pursue this path. If the […]

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Soothing Noah Smith’s Fears About a Post-Growth World

September 27, 2018

SOOTHING NOAH SMITH’S FEARS ABOUT A POST-GROWTH WORLD Last week Foreign Policy published an article I wrote titled “Why growth can’t be green.”  It stirred a lively online discussion – and of course attracted dissenters.  Among them was one Noah Smith, who penned a critical op-ed in Bloomberg.  You can read it here. I wrote […]

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An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . .

August 1, 2018

An Engineer, an Economist, and an Ecomodernist Walk Into a Bar and Order a Free Lunch . . . Photo source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 Humanity’s and the Earth’s prospects have been dimming for the past year and a half. But they’ve been bleak for a long time; as little […]

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Ecology: The Keystone Science

July 3, 2018

Ecology: The Keystone Science Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters | CC BY 2.0 A missing piece from most critiques of modern capitalism revolves around the misunderstanding of ecology. To put it bluntly, there will be no squaring the circle of mass industrial civilization and an inhabitable Earth. There is no way for […]

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