Former Obama-administration energy secretary and Nobel laureate, Steven Chu, says the global economy is dysfunctional because it depends on constant population growth. “The world needs a new model of how…
We live in a world that’s running out of stuff including the stuff that keeps you alive – clean air and fresh water for starters. There is not enough to…
One of the most recurring themes on this blog over the past six years has been the prospect of running out of stuff. As the first truly global civilization, mankind…
2015, we’re told, is the year the developed world (that’s us) and the emerging economies (China, India, etc., etc., etc.) will close ranks to formulate an effective plan of action…
The Guardian has published two articles that blame climate change, or most of it, on a few corporate fat cats. One claims just 90-companies cause two-thirds of global warming emissions.…
Is our system of government incapable of meeting the challenges we face? A very simple question raising a point that has been addressed here at length several times. It gets…
Across North America, people need a strong voice from the Left more than they have at any time in the last half century. America’s society is crumbling and Canada is…
It’s a core tenet of our Western industrial/capitalist/democratic orthodoxy that something in the range of 3% annual economic growth is the benchmark of a healthy society. That’s 3% compounded growth.…
The Japanese have become perhaps the greyest of the greying nations of the developed world. This is discussed in The World Today, the public journal of Chatham House, perhaps the…
Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible. That is all you need to accept to realize that our growth-based economics are invalid, even harmful and we need to move…
