Richard Heinberg: The Final Doubling
Can humans decouple resource overuse from economic growth?
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Holy Sh*t, Overshoot! Don’t Dither; Do
July 28 was EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. On July 29 we went into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature
There are of course many things we can do.
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth – Post Carbon Institute
Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth.
Post Carbon Institute: Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
Foundational Capital and Growth Capital, and what we should be doing with both.
What could possibly go right?
Bridging the gap between the people who are involved in proactive, regenerative responses to the climate, ecological and social crises, and those who don’t know this is happening, feel overwhelmed, and don’t know what to do.
Choosing ‘enough’ rather than ‘more’
A brief look at steady state economics and the values of enough rather than more.
Covid recovery and bouncing forward
Central to the Transition movement from the outset has been the idea of resilience. Usually framed as the ability to ‘bounce back’, it is seen in the Transition movement as being better imagined as the capacity to ‘bounce forward’, i.e. to use it as the opportunity to move forward to something better. How then to ‘bounce forward’ from COVID-19 in such a way that we also move to a way of doing things consistent with the scale of the climate crisis?