The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

"Good questions but incomplete answers" according to Jake Wagner. This book reminds me that in 1968, Paul Ehrlich published "the Population Bomb," which predicted declining living standards (and even widespread starvation) due to exponential population growth. Shortly thereafter, Meadows, Meadows and Randers published "Limits to Growth" (1972) which provided numerical simulations showing how population would peak and then decline (overshoot and collapse) as the world ran out of resources, under a variety of assumptions. Although these books were p. Serious food for thought I am going to take Richard serious and prepare for a 1 to 2% growth rate in America. As an MBA, I never did buy all the propaganda thrown at me in the program. I buy some of the premise of the correlation between cheap oil and other cheap resouces with super growth, inventions and other great advancements over the last 200 years.I also believe most Americans love profit, believe in the manifestly destiny and dismiss timing to such a degree it will become their Achilles heel. I look . Reading this book in 2013 -has been revealing. Some of Heinbergs assertions have been borne out.Five years after the crash of 2008, the global economy is still struggling in fits and starts. While a recovery of sorts has been underway in the US and UK, it has been mostly jobless. Unemployment among young adults worldwide has risen by a quarter since 2008. Climate change is producing more extreme weather: typhoon Haiyan- perhaps the strongest typhoon ever- has devastated parts of the Philippines. Mass anti-go

--Paul Gilding - Former head of Greenpeace InternationalRichard has rung the bell on the limits to growth. We can thrive during the transition if we set goals that promote human and environmental well-being, rather than continuing to pursue the now-unattainable prize of ever-expanding GDP.. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. --John Fullerton - President and Founder, Capital InstituteNobody should be elected to federal office who has not  read

Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it shows why growth is being blocked by three factors:Resource depletionEnvironmental impactsCrushing levels of debtThese converging limits will force us to re-evaluate cherished economic theories and to reinvent money and commerce.The End of Growth describes what policy makers, communities, and families can do to build a new economy that operates within Earth’s budget of energy and resources. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. W

With a wry, unflinching approach, he explains the trends that shape our world.. Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators, Richard lectures widely and appears on radio, television, and in films. He is a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, a think tank helping chart humanity’s transition from the brief, waning reign of fossil-fueled megatechnology to the dawning era of re-adaptation to nature’s limits. Richard H