A World of Limited Resources Our economic system assumes unlimited resources lasting forever and unlimited economic "growth." But the real world has limits. What are the assumptions, policies and realities that caused our current economic crisis?
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The External and Social Cost of Gasoline, by the International Center for Technology Assessment, Report Number 3, 1998. Go to http://www.icta.org/doc/Real%20Price%20of%20Gasoline.pdf for the full report. |
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War spending is unsustainable too: Major problems found in war spending, by Richard Lardner, Associated Press Writer; news.yahoo.com June 6, 2009 War spending by its nature is on an emergency basis and not controllable. This is apart from the purposes served by our wars.
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The Oil Connection: What we expect to get from our endless wars. Adapted from Heinberg's new book The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, New Society, 2003 Optimists say resources are effectively infinite. The human intellect is the greatest resource of all; humanity is growing a measurably brighter future with each passing year . . On the other hand are the scientists who tell us that resources are limited. As a result of their inaction, our leaders have in effect chosen the path of the optimists. |
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When the Cars Are Gone: Adapted from The Long Emergency, 2005, by James Howard Kunstler, and reprinted with permission of the publisher, Grove/Atlantic, nc. © 2005 Rolling Stone What's going to happen as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle? Many predictable things.
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"The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard" is an engaging new short film that explains the "materials economy" in 20 fun-filled minutes. The official story makes it sound like it's going along OK, but it's running up against limits and has to be changed.
Go HERE to watch the video. |
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The Economics of Happiness, by Saamah Abdallah, written for Yes! Magazine. Posted on the Yes!Magazine website, Sep 21, 2009
National policies are written based on the assumption that the GDP reflects our national well-being: if GDP is high, we must be doing well. But if the GDP measures something other than our well-being, we could be seriously off track and not know it.
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Big Banks Are Selling Us Out on Climate Change By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Posted on October 6, 2007, Printed on October 6, 2007, http://www.alternet.org/story/64470/ The connection between the money source and the dead-end environmental course we're on.
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ExxonMobil's War on Science. By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HuffingtonPost.com, February 1, 2007 One reason for the inadequate response to climate change. |
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