{"id":40458,"date":"2018-11-13T07:17:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40458"},"modified":"2018-11-13T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T12:17:21","slug":"how-the-light-gets-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40458","title":{"rendered":"How the light gets in"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How the light gets in<\/a><\/h3>\n

The science behind growth scepticism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Entropy Law still matters. CUSP director Tim Jackson responds to Michael Liebreich\u2019s essay on the \u2018The secret of eternal growth\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s probably fitting that Michael Liebreich\u2019s The Secret of Eternal Growth<\/a><\/em> was published so close to Halloween. It\u2019s so full of outlandish bogeymen, it sits perfectly alongside the ghouls and the ghosts of the trick-or-treat season.<\/p>\n

The thrust of his article is very simple. Anyone who questions the wisdom of eternal growth on a finite planet is a mindless, anti-capitalistic, left-leaning fraud who has abandoned \u2018hard measurement\u2019 and practises \u2018fake science\u2019. (I think I captured all the accusations but it\u2019s hard to be sure.) Trash them, one and all, these unruly critics of late capitalism.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a surprising ad personam<\/em> rant, based on a flagrant disrespect for anyone taking a contrary view. And it\u2019s peppered with an unhealthy dose of outright hubris, typified by a glowing endorsement of Ronald Reagan\u2019s Hollywood B-list mantra: <\/em>\u2018there are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder\u2019. The music swells, our hero lifts his gaze, the camera pans away, across the wide savannah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How the light gets in The science behind growth scepticism The Entropy Law still matters. CUSP director Tim Jackson responds to Michael Liebreich\u2019s essay on the \u2018The secret of eternal growth\u2019. CC.0 :: ipicgr \/ pixabay.com It\u2019s probably fitting that Michael Liebreich\u2019s The Secret of Eternal Growth was published so close to Halloween. It\u2019s so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[5330,22826,391,22933,2427,2328,485,22825,4514,22932,15173,15672],"class_list":["post-40458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-entropy","tag-eternal-growth","tag-growth","tag-growth-scepticism","tag-hubris","tag-infinite-growth","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-michael-liebreich","tag-perpetual-growth","tag-scepticism","tag-thermodynamics","tag-tim-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40459,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40458\/revisions\/40459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}