It’s really quite straightforward. Right now, the dominant assumption in economics is that all sectors of the economy must grow, all the time, regardless of whether or not we actually need them to. This is an irrational way to manage an economy at the best of times, but during an ecological emergency it is clearly dangerous. Instead, we should

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We have dozens of ideas for how to fix the problem, but we dare not implement them because doing so might undermine growth. And in a growth-dependent economy, that cannot be allowed to happen. Instead, the very newspapers that carry harrowing stories about ecological breakdown also report excitedly on how GDP is growing every quarter, and the very

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The climate emergency facing humanity is a direct outcome of economic and political arrangements that view the natural world as a resource to be exploited only for economic gain while marginalizing alternate worldviews that regard humans as custodians of the planet (Büscher, Sullivan, Neves, Igoe, & Brockington, 2012). In this article, we argue

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Instead of making things that add value back to a system, our current linear economic model extracts and processes raw materials from nature, produces pollution and returns negative externalities back to the planet in the form of waste — which then affects all living things in negative ways. Externalities are things not accounted for in the current... See more

We need to talk about the economy and its coexisting blindfolded and ignorant structures that seem to have been the prevailing system for democratic societies over the last 100 years. We need to talk about how we look at systemic structures, why they matter and how they work. Few are truly paying attention to how the whole is functioning together,... See more