New Scientist Archive

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  We can’t grow our way to fairness - by frog

  
  
  
  Last week I pointed to New Scientist’s special issue on The Folly of Growth.  One of its really compelling articles was Andrew Simm’s explanation of why growth didn’t and couldn’t end poverty as its proponents have often claimed: THE last line of defence for advocates of indefinite global economic growth is that it is needed [...] read more
  November 4, 2008 1:53 pm - 22 Comments
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  Daly and Suzuki on the folly of growth - by frog

  
  
  
  I am spending some of my holiday weekend wallowing in this month´s New Scientist special issue entitled ¨The folly of growth¨. (Both linked articles require a subscription to read, sorry. I bought a hard copy.) Economist Herman Daly talks about how economics has a blind spot that has put humanity and the the earth on [...] read more
  October 27, 2008 12:01 pm - 92 Comments
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  What politicians dare not say. (Except the Greens) - by frog

  
  
  
  In the usual sequence of events, what was once Green heresy is now at least being openly discussed in the mainstream media. This month´s New Scientist has a series of articles about the limits to growth and our politician´s and economist´s obsession with growth – and how it is killing us and the planet that [...] read more
  October 25, 2008 5:05 pm - 136 Comments