Growth is Madness!
GIM addresses humanity's most urgent challenge: the need to confront our continued irrational push for unending growth on a finite earth. The emphasis is on population growth and corporate economic growth as they interact with resource consumption rates and our reliance on fossil energy, pushing us toward global ecological collapse.
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Posted 5 years ago
I've launched a new site at johnfeeney.net. Though parts of it are still under construction, there's enough completed that I think it makes sense to announce it.Rather than a dedicated blog like GIM,
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By John Feeney: From its first day GIM has been nothing more than an effort to reach as many people as possible with an urgent ecological message. The blog has prompted me to think through certain iss
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Update: As an extra, here is a link to a video in which Dr. Bandura discusses the development and use of serial dramas, originated by Miguel Sabido and used by organizations such as the Population Med
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By John Feeney: I received an email recently from GIM reader and occasional commenter, Alex Szczech, pointing me to his letter to the editor of his local paper. I was heartened to learn Alex had been
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By John Feeney: Update #1: See Brishen Hoff's, Paul Chefurka's, and Graham Strouts's critiques of the Monbiot article as well. Update #2: For a correct, non-deceptive comparison of population growth a
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Editor's note: Articles on GIM typically reflect the assumption that we may be able to avert societal collapse or other catastrophic consequences of our ongoing violation of Earth's limits. Admittedly
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I'm busy working on a difficult article which I hope to get published somewhere. In the meantime, I've come across several intriguing items on the Web, either in researching the article, or just pokin
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Editor's note: Brad Arnold is a global warming and biological weapons internet activist. This essay by Brad captures succinctly the potentially tragic consequences, intended or not, of the Bush admini
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Below are two interviews worth a listen. The first is with Al Bartlett. The second features Paul Ehrlich. Each is, of course, a leading thinker and writer on a variety of topics in sustainability. (Bo
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By John Feeney: Humanity's greatest challenge is upon us. It's a converging set of ecological problems. No other difficulty we now face has the potential to impact the human future as profoundly as th