Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal
With characteristic insight, the great American philosopher, John Dewey, once wrote: ‘Every generation has to accomplish democracy over again for itself.’
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Can a “Green Growth” Strategy Solve Climate Change?
Faith in decoupling deflects attention away from the problems that lie at the heart of global environmental (and social) problems…
Competing Skyscrapers
As economic growth threatens climate stability, biodiversity, planetary geochemical flows, and ecosystem health, humanity is creating a bottleneck for itself.
“You Can’t Handle the Truth!”
At this point most people appear to know that something is terribly, terribly wrong in the United States of America.
Overly Simple Energy-Economy Models give Misleading Answers
Does it make a difference if our models of energy and the economy are overly simple?
What is the World? Who are We? What Are We Going to Do about It?
Speaking of Creation encourages humility, reminding us of humans’ relatively small, albeit disproportionately destructive, place in that larger world.
Breaking the System: A Review of Surviving the Future
The three-century-long reign of the market economy is nearing its end whether we like it or not, wrote late British economist David Fleming in Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.
$50 Oil Doesn’t Work
$50 per barrel oil is clearly less impossible to live with than $30 per barrel oil, because most businesses cannot make a profit with $30 per barrel oil. But is $50 per barrel oil helpful?
No Mere Resolution: The Vermont Legislature and the Steady State Economy
In Vermont, a famously beautiful and progressive land that has also offered us a viable presidential candidate, there was virtually unanimous support in the legislature for recognizing limits to economic growth, the problems caused by growth, and the solutions inherent to a steady state economy.
Why the Economy Should Stop Growing—And Just Grow Up
It is time to reframe the debate to recognize that we have pushed growth in material consumption beyond Earth’s environmental limits.
The Renewed Debates on Sharing, Inequality, and the Limits to Growth
The people’s voice has taken centre stage once again in recent months, in which a call for sharing is palpable in the many agendas for social justice and true democracy.
Inequality, Epidemiology and Economics
Public health is an alternative indicator of well-being and is strongly correlated to levels of equality or inequality. Greater equality means greater well-being for everyone and a smaller need for the state – yet inequality has been increasing dramatically.