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Setting Things Straight for the Steady State
/4 Commentsby Brian Czech
Extremely dangerous political rhetoric has proliferated over the past several decades, seducing the masses onto a path that leads to the destruction of nature and civilization. This rhetoric is centered on the claim that “there is no conflict between growing the economy and protecting the environment!” Politicians are all about economic growth but, at the same time, none of them want to be seen as willful destroyers of the environment.
Building a Local Movement: Transition Winnipeg Embraces the Steady State Economy
/3 CommentsWhen individual action is too little, and national policy reform will be too late, community-based movement may be just right.
A Post-Growth Economy in France?
/4 CommentsHeads of state and top economists actively discussing and debating a post-growth economy? Now that’s progress!
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Whereas:
1) Economic growth, as defined in standard economics textbooks, is an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services, and;
2) Economic growth occurs when there is an increase in the multiplied product of population and per capita consumption, and;
3) The global economy grows as an integrated whole consisting of agricultural, extractive, manufacturing, and services sectors that require physical inputs and produce wastes, and;
4) Economic growth is often and generally indicated by increasing real gross domestic product (GDP) or real gross national product (GNP),
Will DC Break Free of Its Methane-Gas—and Economic-Growth—Shackles?
/7 Commentsby Alix Underwood
How do we stop climate change? One decommissioned fossil-fuel pipe at a time, via hard-fought local battles to change energy infrastructure and decrease energy consumption. Who do we fight these battles against? Profit-hungry corporations that monopolize energy markets and back-pocket politicians that help them guard the fossil façade.
In the U.S. capital, the climate-change rubber hits the road as activists pressure an obscure and unelected decision-making body,
Approaching the Energy Cliff
/17 Commentsby Dave Rollo
Warn anyone in the USA about the coming energy crisis and you’re likely to see eyes roll. “What energy crisis? That was half a century ago! Markets and technology won. Today we’re back among the top oil suppliers!”
All true, but the response gives a false sense of security that has policymakers and publics sleepwalking toward a cliff. An energy crisis is likely ahead, no matter our rank (currently third) among oil supplying nations.
Influenced to Overconsume: How Social Media Hijacks Sustainability
/4 Commentsby Priya Thompson
We live in an age defined by contradiction. On one hand, the climate crisis demands urgent and systemic action. On the other hand, we are more connected to a digital world that profits—at great ecological cost—from our distraction, desires, and deeply human need to belong.
This tension is constant and personal for many Gen Z users, who overwhelmingly identify with sustainability as a lifestyle and a moral imperative.
Corporate Conservation Funding: A Contradictory Conundrum
/2 Commentsby Kali Young
Apple, Cargill, Walmart, United Airlines, Chevron, BlackRock, Starbucks, Ford Motor Company, Amazon, McDonald’s, Sotheby’s…What do they all have in common? They are among many megacorporations that fund Conservation International, one of the most prominent conservation foundations in the world. World Wildlife Fund and the Conservation Fund, also conservation powerhouses, have similar though less expansive funder profiles.
Walmart and BlackRock are two of the world’s top deforestation perpetrators.