Climate Change Archives – Page 4 of 8 – Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy

Conflict of Interest at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? A Deal Some Couldn’t Refuse

March 20, 2018/4 Comments/in Climate Change, Corruption, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Governance, Money and Investments, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

By Richard McCorkle, Guest Author

As a fish and wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I’ve been concerned about global warming and climate change for more than a quarter century. In the late 1990s, when I finally had the means to do so, I began privately investing in socially and environmentally screened mutual funds. I felt it was the right thing to do; I was putting my money where my mouth was.

Good Health Requires Different Economics

July 2, 2015/1 Comment/in Economic Growth, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

by Trevor Hancock

For the past three years, I have been leading an important project for the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), which led to the release on May 25th of our Discussion Paper and a 100-page technical report on global change and public health.

In these documents, we identify what we call the “ecological determinants of health”: clean air and water, food, materials, fuel, the great cycles of water,

Thoughts on Pope Francis’ Laudato Si

June 23, 2015/14 Comments/in Climate Change, Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Poverty, Religion, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

by Herman Daly

As a Protestant Christian, my devotion to the Catholic Church has been rather minimal, based largely on respect for early church history and for the love of an aunt who was a nun. In recent times, the Catholic Church’s opposition to birth control, plus the pedophile and cover-up scandals, further alienated me. Like many others, I first viewed Pope Francis as perhaps a breath of fresh air, but little more. After reading his encyclical on environment and justice,

Preempting a Misleading Argument: Why Environmental Problems Will Stop Tracking with GDP

May 13, 2015/1 Comment/in Brian Czech, Consumption, Economic Growth, Environment, Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Brian explains how GDP growth will eventually stop tracking with environmental damage–but the reasons may not be what you’d expect!

Earth Day Message: Double the Native Forest Cover

April 21, 2015/0 Comments/in Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

This Earth Day, Brent Blackwelder urges us to double the current amount of native forest cover.

Animal Welfare: Seeing the Forest for the Denizens

November 20, 2014/5 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Has economic growth become the inconvenient truth for animal welfare?

Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater

October 23, 2014/2 Comments/in Brian Czech, Economic Growth, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Brian Czech responds to Paul Krugman’s shockingly weak column, which argues against the limits to growth with the example of slow steaming.

Three Limits to Growth

September 4, 2014/8 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

Our economy faces a futility limit, ecological catastrophe limit, and an economic limit. Fortunately, the economic limit will likely be the first we encounter; hopefully we can implement a steady state economy before the others are reached!