Preempting a Misleading Argument: Why Environmental Problems Will Stop Tracking with GDP
Brian explains how GDP growth will eventually stop tracking with environmental damage–but the reasons may not be what you’d expect!
These are the CASSE blog articles on economic growth.
War and Peace and the Steady State Economy
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Governance, Politics, Religion, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly discusses the natural alliances between peacemakers and steady staters, and between the growth economy and warfare.
Book Review: Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet by Kerryn Higgs
/12 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly reviews Kerryn Higgs’ Collision Course (Endless Growth on a Finite Planet), finding her explanation of the ascendancy of the weaker anti-Limits position constitutes a kick in the head for those of us who believe in the persuasive power of reasoned argument.
A New Economy Will Help Save Rivers and Fisheries
/0 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMany activities that today damage rivers and fisheries would not occur in a steady state economy.
When Growth Trumps Freedom: the Chill in Canada Comes from our Government, not the Weather
/8 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechSome politicians will go quite far to cling to an aging growth-at-all-costs narrative.
Potential New Allies in the Effort to Achieve a Sustainable True Cost Economy
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDr. Blackwelder discusses how those in faith-based communities can become powerful allies for those of us seeking an economy that meets peoples’ needs without undermining the life support systems of the planet.
Who Moved Obama’s Win-Win Cheese?
/10 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czechby Brian Czech
Whether or not you like President Obama or his policy preferences, you have to acknowledge his consistency. Even those with “zero regard” for the president confess, “At least Obama is consistent.”
But not consistently. There is one issue, at least, on which he hasn’t held still, moving in and out like an octopus in a sunken ship. That issue is the relationship between economic growth and environmental protection.
Oil and Real Estate Bubbles in Canada: What Goes up Won’t so Smoothly Come Down
/7 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Money and Investments, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechMagnus-Johnston explains how these investments are funded, and how it exacerbates our economy’s growth imperative.
A Population Perspective on the Steady State Economy
/9 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Energy, Environment, Governance, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechThe population problem should be considered from the point of view of all populations–populations of both humans and their things–if we are going to achieve a steady state economy.
Crossroads on Global Infrastructure
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechA momentous choice is before us. Will we choose more mega-highway projects, centralized electric power plants, and mega-dams, or more decentralized wind and solar investments?