If we are serious about ending poverty, we have to be serious about ending the systems that create poverty by robbing the poor of their common wealth, livelihoods and incomes.
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Post Growth is very pleased to bring you a guest post from Dr Mathis Wackernagel, founder and President of the Global Footprint Network and co-creator of the Ecological Footprint. Many thanks to Mathis and GFN for permission to reproduce this article, adapted from a piece originally produced for Friends of Europe, 28 September 2010. Expanding [...]
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Can the economy continue to grow on a finite planet? Some have already realized the answer to this question is an unequivocal “no” and moved onto the question of “what next?” Perhaps we should not necessarily ask ourselves “what’s next?” but how do we get to “next” in the first place? (you can read why [...]
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Compress the past million years of human development into 24 hours, and the journey from steam engine to search engine amounts to about 21 seconds. But is that pace sustainable?
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