Real Dichotomies Are Not Made “False” by Soft Science or Political Pandering
Ecologists need to stop drinking the green Koolaid and tell it like it is regarding the conflict between economic growth and ecological health.
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Occupy the G-8
/1 Comment/in Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhen the G-8 convened at Camp David, Brent Blackwelder was on hand to address the Occupy Movement.
What Is the Limiting Factor?
/14 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIt is not for nothing that our system is called “capitalism” rather than “natural resource-ism.”
Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable Civilization
/8 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Poverty, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechEric Zencey reports encouraging news from the United Nations, but he knows a sustainable economic system won’t arise without concerted effort.
Limits to Growth – of Stuff, Value, and GDP
/17 Comments/in Economic Growth, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechLimits to growth apply to more than just “stuff,” but you have to think clearly about “value” to get it.
Deceptionomics
/1 Comment/in Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDeceptionomics allows all sorts of unwise decisions about economic growth, environmental protection, and human well-being.
Uneconomic Growth Deepens Depression
/8 Comments/in Climate Change, Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Governance, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechHerman Daly makes the case against using obsolete growth policies to dig out of the recession, and he issues a challenge to technological optimists.
Growth and Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still Kicking Hard
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechOf course, it’s better to be rich than poor, but the conventional approaches for making us rich — GDP growth and free trade — no longer apply.
Technological Progress for Dummies
/5 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechPart 1 of Brian Czech’s explanation of why we can’t rely on technological progress to overcome the limits to economic growth.
Could Obama Be the First Steady-State President?
/3 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Environment, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechObama probably understands the impossibility of infinite growth on a finite planet — he just needs the mandate to do something about it.