Saturday, March 13, 2010

Life After Growth--Managing our Way to a Desirable Future

by Richard Heinberg, a condensed version posted on The Oil Drum.
It’s an uncomfortable idea, but one that cannot be ignored: The “normal” late-20th century economy of seemingly endless growth actually emerged from an aberrant set of conditions that cannot be perpetuated.

That “normal” is gone. One way or another, a “new normal” will emerge to replace it. Can we build a different, more sustainable economy to replace the one now in tatters?