Who Killed Economic Growth? (And Why the Planet Is Listening)

Too often in our national discourse growing the economy and the protecting the environment are presented as being somehow antithetical, as though we have to choose one or the other. But the truth is that they are symbiotic.

More important, both have hit a fundamental turning point, as this short animation by Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg makes clear.

 

Comments

[OkieMon]

12:53 PM on 08/06/2011

bush/chainy/repub 150 dollar a barrel oil and all the associated inflation that will be with us for years destroyed the economy....and just think oil was 'stable' at 10-20 dollars for 25 years before the oil barons took over the whitehouse.....

[beckjr2000]

02:20 PM on 08/05/2011

Quote by Paul Ehrlich, professor, Stanford University: “Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”

[MrBIgp]

02:13 PM on 08/06/2011

This quote says more about Paul Ehrlich than it says about our society.

[AnthropologistAmongApes]

12:52 AM on 08/07/2011

How about telling us what the metaphor means so that we know you understand what was said? Conservatives seem to have difficulty with metaphor, satire, irony and abstraction generally; I'm not at all certain you understand the statement.

[Mike Nemeth]

11:29 AM on 08/05/2011

Unless we fall into a narrative written by SM Stirling, I don't see the realization coming. Nor will this society move on right away. It will have to be beaten over the head by multiple crises. But I love the video. Strangely encouraging.