Last weekend I drew attention to Monbiot’s musings on financial and ecological crises. This weekend it’s ecological economist Herman Daly explaining in simple terms why economic growth has become uneconomic growth: we’re getting less wealth and more illth (hat tip: Things Break). That leads nicely to New Scientist’s special issue on The Folly of Growth – covered in detail at Things Break (follow the links there), and also under discussion at frogblog. There are limits to growth and we’re hitting them, but we lack the political and economic tools to deal with the problem. In that context, check out the recent PBS documentary Heat: it opens with an Indian scientist opining:
We are standing at the precipice of hell. If everybody else was to live as an American, we’re doomed.
See also: Nick “Report” Stern’s call for green solutions to the financial crisis. He can’t avoid the word growth, but at least he’s proposing less illth.
Related posts:
- Care of environment could be good for jobs
- Fighting for the least bad outcome…
- They would say that (again), wouldn’t they?
- Wegman investigated for plagiarism, “skepticgate” looms
- Gone west
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