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Welcome to Growth is Madness!
Our earth is in trouble. And that means we’re in trouble. It’s no exaggeration today to say we face a looming global ecological collapse. Scientists have warned us of this for more than a decade. The...
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Did someone say, “steady state economy”?
To some extent, I’d like the early posts here to be sequential in laying out a case for the site’s basic arguments. But timely items from around the Web and elsewhere are part of the plan as well. With...
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Can ecological economists save us from the mainstreamers?
Mainstream economists are trying to kill us. They don’t think of it that way, but they should. The standard policies promoting endless economic growth of the conventional sort are destroying the...
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Economists can’t take (quite) all the blame
In the previous article here, I reiterated a fundamental problem with mainstream economics. It fails to recognize that all economic activity is a part of, and as dependent on the ecosystem as any...
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The specter of mass extinction
If current trends continue, one half of all species of life on Earth will be extinct in 100 years. — E.O. Wilson What will people do? After the garden is gone. — Neil Young Something terrible is...
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Admit it Betsy, we agree: part 2
In Part 1 of this essay, I began to examine Betsy Hartmann’s argument that population growth is not a serious problem, and that it distracts us from real problems of women’s rights, racism, and class...
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No comfort from the UN
It’s not uncommon on the Web or in the popular press to see authors referring to United Nations population projections in arguing population growth isn’t a problem. Blogger Michael Kruse, writing from...
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Are environmental writers choosing avoidance over truth?
It is indisputable that population size and growth are among the fundamental drivers of today’s ecological crisis. There’s no getting around the math that population size multiplies with per capita...
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Overpopulation: partying as the iceberg looms
I’m pleased to feature on GIM a guest article by Jim Lydecker. Jim researches and writes about such issues as peak oil, resource depletion, global warming and population. This article, which originally...
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We must lose our arrogance
A familiar poem, nearly 200 years old, may provide the theme for our future if we, as one among millions of species, do not soon let go of our sense of privilege, and grasp what “sustainability” means....
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Waking up to humanity’s most urgent challenge
The future: determined by ecological awareness or complacency and denial? By John Feeney: It is essential to see the profound peril in continued flagrant misperception of the very nature of the human...
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Note on peak oil and population
As as follow-up to Jim Lydecker’s essay, My World Without Oil, I wanted to remind readers of an essay by occasional GIM commenter, Paul Chefurka. Titled Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot:...
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Humanity is the greatest challenge
The article quoted and linked to below came out of an idea I submitted to the BBC News’s Green Room. I was lucky enough to contact a wonderfully helpful and supportive editor (Thanks, MK!) and the...
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Stuff to read and watch
I’m busy working on a difficult article which I hope to get published somewhere. In the meantime, I’ve come across several intriguing items on the Web, either in researching the article, or just poking...
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Sowing the seeds of a future society
Editor’s note: Articles on GIM typically reflect the assumption that we may be able to avert societal collapse or other catastrophic consequences of our ongoing violation of Earth’s limits. Admittedly,...
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