You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. -- Joel 2:26 We are the transformers of Earth. Our whole being, and the flights and falls of our love, enable us to undertake this task. -- Rainer Maria Rilke For the past six years I have been writing profusely about the challenges the earth community is … [Read more...]
Economics for a finite world
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple," said Woodie Guthrie. Nowhere is this more true than in books about economics, filled as they often are with wishful thinking dressed up in pseudo-scientific jargon. And nobody needs to get off their arrogant high horses and scale down their ambitions in light of peak oil, climate change and other … [Read more...]