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The European Environmental Bureau (EEB) earns my gratitude, but not my respect, for publishing this commentary:
Opinion: Economic Growth Is Not Compatible With Environmental Sustainability
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It’s disheartening to see an economics professor regurgitate the myth that economic growth can allow us to ignore inequity and poverty. But perhaps I should thank University of Georgia’s Jeffrey Dorfman for giving us this classic, textbook example of the kind of thinking that keeps our society chasing growth
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Growth boosters and profiteers, and many of the policymakers they dupe, have been wringing their hands lately over the progress our society is making on the overpopulation front. Their propaganda on this is ridiculous and dangerous.
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Wall of Fame honors and a very big tip of the hat to 15,000 scientists around the world who elected to issue a wake-up call this year about the folly that will bring human civilization down if we don’t change our ways.
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You might think the biggest threat to human civilization, or at least to a comfortable life, is climate change. It’s not, and Richard Heinberg makes the Wall of Fame today for clearly articulating this. He gets extra credit for putting technology in its place (not our savior) in this piece originally published in Ecowatch, but better headlined here at postcarbon.org: