Sublime

This realisation first struck home in 1972, when a team of scientists at MIT published a groundbreaking report titled Limits to Growth. The report outlined findings from the team’s cutting-edge work using a powerful computer model called World3, which was designed to analyse complex ecological, social and economic data from 1900 to 1970, and to pre

In 2009, a team led by Johan Rockström at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the US climatologist James Hansen, and Paul Crutzen, the man who coined the term Anthropocene, published a groundbreaking paper describing a new concept they referred to as ‘planetary boundaries’.31 The Earth’s biosphere is an integrated system that can withstand significant

John Fullerton, a managing director at J.P. Morgan until 2002 and now a member of the Club of Rome and president of the Capital Institute, is one of the most active facilitators of the dialogue about how we might create a regenerative economy.

The prime exponent of Buddhist economics, E. F. Schumacher, was a colleague of John Maynard Keynes who, after long reflection on the theories that he once practiced, wrote a popular exposition of a more sustainable economics in Small Is Beautiful.

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”

It is urgent to start accounting for and governing natural capital and ecosystem services, not just for saving the environment but for the sake of our own development.

Au point de l’histoire humaine où nous en sommes, le mouvement qui décrit le mieux le progrès dont nous avons besoin est l’entrée dans un équilibre dynamique, en avançant dans l’espace juste et sûr du Donut, en éliminant à la fois les insuffisances et les dépassements. Cela requiert une véritable transformation de nos métaphores : non plus « le bie

As the foremost spokesperson for the view that abrupt climate change will result in near-term human extinction (NTHE), he was the Dark Prince of Climate.