{"id":8026,"date":"2015-05-12T05:36:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T10:36:13","slug":"a-thirst-for-economic-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8026","title":{"rendered":"A Thirst for Economic Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Thirst for Economic Change?<\/a><\/h3>\n

I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>\u2013John Stuart Mill, On the Stationary State<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the face of global resource shortages and the alarming rate at which we are losing species, many of us share the hope that J.S. Mill so ominously communicates in one of his better-known quotes. But what will it take to catalyze the shift to an economic state that respects our natural boundaries? Perhaps the catalyst could be a life-altering dearth of a critical resource that, until recently, most of us in the United States have taken for granted: water.<\/p>\n

The idea that a water shortage like the one California is currently facing could cool the economic engines that have elevated the state to the eighth-largest economy in the world has been discussed in local media and state government offices alike. The\u00a0Desert Sun<\/em>, a paper serving the rapidly-growing Coachella Valley in the southern part of the state, recently posed the question of\u00a0whether water worries will slow development<\/a>\u00a0in the valley. The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0expressed\u00a0its worries<\/a>\u00a0about California\u2019s continuing economic vigor by stating the drought \u201c. . .\u00a0is forcing a reconsideration of whether the aspiration of untrammeled growth that has for so long been this state\u2019s driving engine has run against the limits of nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Thirst for Economic Change? I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.\u00a0\u2013John Stuart Mill, On the Stationary State In the face of global resource shortages and the alarming rate at which we are losing species, many of us share […]<\/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],"tags":[101,220,5346,485,5345,866,2060],"class_list":["post-8026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-john-stuart-mill","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-resource-shortages","tag-water","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026","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=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8027,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions\/8027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}