“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?
A momentous choice is before us. Will we choose more mega-highway projects, centralized electric power plants, and mega-dams, or more decentralized wind and solar investments?
Robert Goodland’s life story will inspire all who care about the environment and social justice.
Now’s the time to maintain pressure on the World Bank to avoid costly failures in constructing a 21st-century energy infrastructure.
Herman Daly has an unorthodox suggestion for curtailing carbon dioxide emissions: grant more power to OPEC.
When the G-8 convened at Camp David, Brent Blackwelder was on hand to address the Occupy Movement.
Herman Daly wonders how the World Bank got in the business of increasing the debt of poor countries.
The World Bank and other proponents of growth need to prove that growth is actually “economic” instead of “uneconomic.”
Jettisoned jobs, illegal immigration, and manic mechanization make for profoundly impractical employment policies.