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One person who was willing to risk political suicide was the visionary systems thinker Donella Meadows – one of the lead authors of the 1972 Limits to Growth report – and she didn’t mince her words. ‘Growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture,’ she declared in the late 1990s; ‘we’ve got to have an enough.’ In response to
... See moreKate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’
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GDP can be increased by producing what is unnecessary, like private jets. I’m saying, OK, maybe we don’t need these things because that’s only for rich people, and that’s also destroying the planet.... See more
grist.org • Slow Down, Do Less: A Q&A With the Author Who Introduced 'Degrowth' to a Mass Audience
Japan is the world’s most rapidly-aging nation. To cite just one of many extraordinary data points, in 2012 its citizens bought more diapers for adults than for children.
John Rubino • The Money Bubble
Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed
... See moreRichard Haass • The World
(A more recent analysis places the real annual growth for the decade at a blazing 6.7 percent and per capita growth at 3.9 percent, both probably the fastest ever.)