Dear Friend, 

Yay limits to growth! Remember that and tell your friends: Yay limits to growth!

What’s so great about limits to growth? Let us count the ways. Fortunately, the ways are not unlimited, so you’ll be on your way to the main content shortly.

In fact, let’s just count a handful of (thankfully) limited things:

•    Artificial “intelligence”
•    East wing of the White House
•    Cybertruck sales

We wouldn’t want even the good things to be unlimited, would we? Pizza ‘til it comes out of your ears? Priuses driving around at the speed of sound? Taylor Swift singing Shake it Off until it shakes off into Outer Space?

Fall (now upon us in the Northern Hemisphere) is great for reminding us of limits to growth. Unless you’re neighbors with Santa Claus, surely you got enough of the third hottest August on record, with all the vines, weeds, and generally invasive species proliferating these days. For awhile there, I feared the limits-to-everything-except-maybe-time-and-space law of physics was in trouble.

It’s football season too. Pardon me, rest of world; talking American “football” here. Would you want to monitor a score of 21,000-14,000? Would you want the season to run year-round? Would professional football be enjoyable at all if not for that salary cap—another great limit—to level the playing field?

We should be soooooo grateful for limits to growth! What’s your favorite limit? (Not my word count, I hope.)

At CASSE, we embrace limits to growth. That said, we’re a long way from the optimum size just yet. Would you like to help us spread the good word about limits to growth?

Thank you and have a Happy Fall! Why, it’s so limited, it will be gone before you know it. But that’s ok. In fact, that’s one of the main reasons we treasure it!

Yay limits to growth!

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Marwa Ebrahem is a master’s student in applied economics at The George Washington University and CASSE's new research intern. She conducts research related to sustainability, environmental taxation, and macroeconomic performance. At CASSE, Marwa assists with statistical analysis pertaining to the negative impacts of economic growth.

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Brian Czech and Managing Editor Alix Underwood attended the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in Baltimore. They collected almost 150 signatures on CASSE's position statement from conferees. Underwood was invited to present in a session on "Diversifying and Decolonizing Ecology." She also presented a poster on "Trophic Perspectives on Agriculture and Fossil Fuels."

Underwood (left) and Czech (right) holding conference signatures.

Brian Czech drove to DeSchool 2025 in Chicago, hosted by the Degrowth Institute. Czech presented on "Steady Statesmanship: Public Policy for Degrowth Toward a Steady State Economy."

Czech discusses the Steady State Economy Act.

On November 3, the University of Pittsburgh’s Environmental Studies Program will host Executive Director Brian Czech for a presentation and discussion on steady-state economics.

Non-fiction books rarely inspire musical composition, so we took note when The Age of Humachines inspired songwriter John Hamilton to compose a pithy but profound pop song, “HuMachine." Have a listen! Then join CASSE and select Humachines as your membership gift! (Or purchase a copy outright from our Steady State Press.)

We introduced two new feeder bills towards the omnibus Steady State Economy Act. We kicked off the controversial Sustainable Population and Immigration Act in September. We followed that with the sensible Sustainable Trade Act in October.

Jen Soti raised $750 for CASSE via her 3rd annual 50-kilometer swim/run in honor of her father, Jim Keeling Jr.  She plans to continue the tradition next year. Soti is also a generous monthly donor and a CASSE member. Congratulations and thank you, Jen!

Richard Cutler donated in honor of Christina Cutler Coots.

Jennifer Taylor donated in honor of Canaan Valley.

Priscilla donated in honor of Jaap Jansen.

Cole Thompson is committed to advancing the steady-state discussion. He has left over 160 comments on Steady State Herald articles. Thank you for consistently reading and sharing your thoughts, Cole!

Despite being on hiatus, the Steady Stater podcast recently reached 25,000 downloads. Podcasts never die; check out over 60 episodes, including interviews with Herman Daly, Kate Raworth, and Chris Matthews.

“So much journalistic writing is now such fluff, so even as a 'lay' person to much of this science, I appreciate how good your writers are and the detail with which they explain these issues.”

Priscilla, United States

"I suddenly wondered why I wasn't a member when I respect CASSE's ideas so much. I am glad to have joined at last; I think CASSE is one of the most important voices in the world. We as a species need to understand ourselves...to realize that war is an infantile way of solving conflicts and start on more enlightened ways."

Carole Bristow, Queensland, Australia

Jane Goodall was a true giant in the world of conservation—in the pantheon of 20th-century conservation figures (and well into the 21st). CASSE is so fortunate that she graced our position on economic growth with her signature. Goodall—unpretentious and rich with field experience—impacted countless hearts and minds.

On July 20, at the age of 98, steady-state philanthropist Peter Seidel left us. He played an especially big role for CASSE. Seidel lived an adventurous, intellectually rich life. He strove always to help his fellow humans with protecting Earth in peaceful coexistence.

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