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Tag: Environmentalism

  • Trainer, between Heinberg and Hudson: The rentier connection and the biosphere polycrisis

    Trainer, between Heinberg and Hudson: The rentier connection and the biosphere polycrisis

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    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…

  • Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

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    rsburke

    Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care Posted Oct 31, 2019 by Eds.  Environment , Literature  Global  Newswire , Review Originally published: Resolute Reader by Giorgos Kallis (October 22, 2019) This short, readable and stimulating book begins with the author overturning perceived knowledge about the 18th century economist Robert Malthus. Malthus is best know for his extended work An Essay on the Principle of…