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These people are instead focusing on building stronger communities with greater resilience and on enhancing our quality of life rather than our quantity of stuff.

The growth machine has pushed humans beyond the limits of our minds—but it is also pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits.

The ecologist Robin Wall Kimmerer has recently advocated for “an economy of abundance.”[20] Choosing abundance, at once a perspective and a legislative platform, a shift in vision and in policy design, means recognizing that this country has a profusion of resources—enough land and capital to go around—and that pretending otherwise is a farce. “I

on two unfounded dogmas: first, that technology can always substitute for nature and, second, that wealthy societies have nearly limitless capacity to adapt to global heating. These are the dogmas that sustain the myth of economic growth

Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.

fishery—but aggregated over the totality of the social, natural, cultural, and spiritual commons, the basic argument of Peak Oil remains valid. Instead of Peak Oil, we are facing Peak Everything.

Humankind’s use of wood has peaked and could soon decline significantly.20 And humankind’s use of land for agriculture is likely near its peak and capable of declining soon.21 All of this is wonderful news for everyone who cares about achieving universal prosperity and environmental protection.

Fondé sur des outils entièrement dépendants des énergies conventionnelles, le monde moderne est à l’évidence – et en dépit des apparences – le plus vulnérable qui ait jamais existé. La disparition des énergies fossiles et électriques, qui tétaniserait tout le système et le rendrait en un instant obsolète, n’est même pas concevable. Ce sont en