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Occupy the G-8

When the G-8 convened at Camp David, Brent Blackwelder was on hand to address the Occupy Movement.

It is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”

Donella Meadows was way ahead of her time, and her words continue to provide inspiration 40 years after she wrote The Limits to Growth.

Deceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.

David Jones debunks decoupling — the mainstream answer for rationalizing continuous economic growth.

Part 1 of Brian Czech’s explanation of why we can’t rely on technological progress to overcome the limits to economic growth.

Herman Daly succinctly sums up the steady-state perspective in his suggestion for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development.

Obama probably understands the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet — he just needs the mandate to do something about it.

Occupiers need to unite around a macroeconomic goal — and the right goal is a steady state economy.

Adaptation will mean moving from growth to a steady-state economy, one almost certainly at a smaller scale than at present.