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A Post-COVID Vision: The Full and Sustainable Employment Act

May 19, 2020/28 Comments/in Brian Czech, Consumption, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Endangered Species, Energy, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Politics, Population, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Technology /by Brian Czech

by Brian Czech

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that the Great God of GDP is a false god after all, impotent as Baal. The mighty American economy, with unprecedented GDP, has been knocked to its knees by one of the lowest conceivable life forms, a mere virus possessing not a single strand of DNA. Politicians who thought their legacies would be associated with “the greatest economy ever” now look like ridiculous priests of a sham religion.

The World Fertility Transition: Moving Toward a Steady-State Population

May 29, 2019/1 Comment/in Population, Steady State Economy, Steady State Herald, Sustainability /by Brian Czech

by Max Kummerow

“There’s just too many of us and no one is talking about it.”
—Biologist Patrick Benson in Meera Subramanian’s, A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis

It is hard to imagine a growing population supporting a steady state economy. “Jobs” and higher incomes for growing numbers of people anchor the platforms of political candidates and economists worldwide.

But what about a different approach?

What Kind of Future Does Your Degree Prepare You For?

September 11, 2015/2 Comments/in Jobs and Employment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian Czech

by James Magnus-Johnston

As the fall chill sets into the air and farmers begin to harvest, universities invite another wave of impressionable young minds to think about the future—of society, and of their place in it. But preparation for the future requires us to consider exactly what kind of future we think we’re in for, and far too many schools are preparing students for a fictional business-as-usual future.

Do your universities and instructors acknowledge that the global temperature will likely rise by at least two degrees this century?