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!
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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.
Hedonism, Survivalism, and the Burden of Knowledge
/6 Comments/in Economic Growth, Environment, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechWhat do we do with the knowledge that we may be headed for climate catastrophe?
Are We Hard-Wired to Think We Can Grow Forever?
/7 Comments/in Population, Steady State Economy, The Daly News /by Brian CzechIs there an evolutionary mechanism stopping us from living within our planetary constraints? If so, can we overcome it before it is too late?
Cold War Leftovers
/13 Comments/in Banking, Corporate Reform, Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Governance, Monetary Policy, Politics, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechDaly challenges the assertion that a steady-state economy is inherently capitalistic and must be instead be based on a socialist system.
Fresh Water, Growth, Degrowth, and the Steady State Economy
/3 Comments/in Environment, Food and Agriculture, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian Czechby Geoffrey Matthews
In Our Common Future, the 1987 report of the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development, sustainable development is described as a process of change which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and aspirations. To achieve this objective, the report suggests a series of goals that should underlie national and international action on development.
How Studying in Asia Made Me See the Need for a Steady State Economy
/4 Comments/in Economic Growth, Population, Poverty, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechAsian nations are running a dangerous experiment on the long-term consequences of short-term economic growth.
Voluntary Simplicity and the Steady-State Economy
/7 Comments/in Consumption, Economic Growth, Population, Steady State Economy, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechPeople who live simply and mindfully set the example for the good life in a steady state economy.
Too Many Jobs
/4 Comments/in Economic Policy, Environment, Jobs and Employment, Population, Sustainability, Technology, The Daly News /by Brian CzechPolicies needed to stabilize population and consumption will be difficult to enact, but difficult is a lot easier than impossible.
Open Borders and the Tragedy of Open Access Commons
/7 Comments/in Economic Growth, Economic Policy, Governance, Jobs and Employment, Politics, Population, Sustainability, The Daly News /by Brian CzechState of denial: it’s easier to pretend that unlimited economic growth can support an unlimited population, including immigrants.