Tag «de-growth»

The Big Green Lie

The latest post from the conscious of sheep concludes that: This is the Big Green Lie.  Because running an economy entirely on renewable energy is easy.  Humans have been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years.  Indeed, it is only in the last three centuries that we have done other than operating entirely on …

The Negative-Sum Economy

In his latest blog post on Ecosophia  John Michael Greer introduced me to a new word, illth, first coined by Ruskin. This is the conclusion of his piece: During the long era of expansion made possible by the exploitation of fossil fuels, the world’s industrial nations had positive-sum economies: that is to say, the total …

The financial world is deeply perverted

I have just come across this in a newsletter I receive.  I think this is a symptom of de-growth. ….  the financial world is deeply perverted. It’s a landscape in which toxic debt can be packaged up – and leveraged. Where ‘money’ can be conjured onto the books of the banks. And stock prices shoot …