biodiversity,climate change,economic growth,limits to growth,overconsumption,overpopulation,overshoot,sustainability
Sheryl Crow makes the Wall of Fame today with a song and video from her new album, Be Myself. The song is Halfway There, and there is a lot to like about it, and a little to nitpick.
economic growth,gdp,gdp growth,limits to growth
On Friday the U.S. Commerce Department reported:
“Consumers pulled back sharply on spending in early 2017…reducing the economy’s quarterly growth to its lowest level in three years.”
That quote is from this New York Times story by Nelson D. Schwartz:
G.D.P. Report Shows U.S. Economy Off to Slow Start in 2017
Wait a minute. Why would the Trump administration celebrate this?
economic growth,economy,gdp,gdp growth,limits to growth
I want to thank U.S. OMB Director Mick Mulvaney for stating so clearly a textbook example of economic growth folklore, conveniently highlighted in this story’s headline:
Mulvaney to Kudlow: ‘Economic Growth Solves All of our Problems’
climate change,economic bro,economic growth,economy,gdp,gdp growth,limits to growth,sustainability
With its recent executive order to gut the US federal government’s climate regulations, the Trump administration has chosen to ignore the ongoing devastating impacts and future risks of climate change while perpetuating the widely believed myth that economic growth drives prosperity.
economic growth,gdp growth,limits to growth,overpopulation,population decline,population growth,population taboo,sustainability
It’s easy to spot someone who’s been programmed from birth to believe there is a pot of gold at the end of the growth rainbow. When they write about economic or population growth, it’s simply assumed that more is good, faster is better, and there is no question or debate about that.