Tag: environmental limits to growth
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Trainer, between Heinberg and Hudson: The rentier connection and the biosphere polycrisis
Despite several decades of critiques, analyses, and urgent calls for reform, there has been little progress in solving the multiple environmental crises, or in deflecting their negative effects. With some notable exceptions, previous efforts have largely ignored or soft-pedaled the role of the global economic system in driving environmental collapse. Economist Michael Hudson’s Killing the…
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Fresh questions about solar power
A field of destroyed solar panels after a storm in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017. Photo by Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA Say that a restaurant offers “healthy, natural” chicken soup. How do you know what it means by “healthy” or “natural?” Farmers can cage chickens, feed them genetically-modified soy, wash butchered birds in antibiotics—and still…
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What’s the deal with the Green New Deal?
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Among the encouraging political straws in the wind are the growing momentum in the United States and the United Kingdom, two leading carbon states, for something called the ‘Green New Deal’. I have some questions about it.These are questions from an interested and, to be clear, broadly sympathetic amateur. I'm not raising them in the…
