Sir Thomas Enough: Utopia and the Steady State
With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
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With his vision of Utopia, perhaps Sir Thomas More should have changed his last name to Enough.
As the economy bloats with bigger and bigger bites taken from the biosphere, what’s the 21st century response?
To some, “steady state” sounds pessimistic. But to many, “steady state” is a sincere name for our best bet at an exceptional economy.
Brent Blackwelder suggests that you don’t have to worry about a solar or wind “spill” contaminating the air, land and water.
The Green Transition Scoreboard is a useful tool to direct investment decisions in the 21st century economy.
Misplaced confidence is preventing us from making decent decisions about our energy supplies.
Striving to create perpetually more jobs on a finite planet is a sure path to growing unemployment.
Egypt and Tunisia have a lesson: GDP is a measure of the commotion of money in an economy, not a measure of delivered well-being.
Herman Daly entreats economists not to eschew the wonderful wisdom of Wendell Berry.
Brent Blackwelder remembers Ronald Reagan’s ruinous results for the environment and the economy.