Growth | Grist

Is hindsight 20/20?

Learning from past civilizations 2
Posted 4 months ago
To understand our current environmental dilemma, it helps to look at earlier civilizations that also got into environmental trouble. Our early 21st century civilization is not the first to face the prospect of environmentally induced economic decline. The question is how we will respond.
The more we get together, the happier we'll be

Obama tells China the “ravages of climate change” demand cooperation 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
In a speech to head off the first meeting of the Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington, D.C between the United States and China this morning, President Obama talks Chinese spending.
The issue is not growth or no growth, but a better world

Growing a better world 5
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Questioning growth has been the obsessive focus of many for decades. Questioners make important points. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been, at best, a very rough proxy for wellbeing, often not even that. For this and other reasons many liberals, progressives, and leftists consider a "steady state economy" part of building a good society. For all that critics of growth get right, they focus in the end on the wrong thing, on growth rather than waste.
His modern-day heir: Barack Obama

Robert F. Kennedy first challenged our Ponzi scheme pursuit of growth for growth’s sake 0
Posted 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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