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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring or the publication of Limits to Growth marked quantum leaps in understanding our ecological impact on Earth.

Katherine Collins has become an outspoken architect of investment strategies that help propel us toward a circular economy.

Estimates vary, but even the low end of the spectrum suggests that a global switch to regenerative land husbandry would sequester our total annual emissions back underground.32 Which means we could reverse the trends of global warming simply by changing the way we farm and ranch.

We need exponentially less of the degenerative forms of capitalism and exponentially more of the increasingly resilient and regenerative forms.

Patagonia, for instance, recognizing that its continued success depends on the earth and that “the environmental cost of everything we make is astonishing,” has taken the bold step of encouraging its customers to not even buy its products unless truly needed, encouraging them to instead either buy used Patagonia products or do without. The company

The idea dated back to the Roman Empire. According to a mandate adopted by Justinian, who governed from A.D. 527 to 565, the sea, shoreline, air, and rivers belonged to everyone as part of the commons: Salus populi suprema lex esto. The welfare of the people is the supreme law.

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I do not foresee an abrupt transition to the economy I describe. Let us indulge our gentle disposition and allow that the habits of slavery are of long standing and may need some time to unwind. I foresee a degrowth rate of around 2 percent, so that our use of raw materials, our pollution of the air and water, and our time spent working for money