growth

I saw Growthbusters last night in Sudbury, MA.  It's a good film, with some great footage of Chris and the Martenson family.  I'd recommend seeing it.

I've been listening to all the videos up to this point and they all make sense to me. I've spent the last 10 years in college / Grad school studying social justice although it wasn't offered as a major you could get the classes that offered social justice information by taking anthropology, religious studies, and theology & ethics classes. Thing is while I only took one required economics class which made growth out to be good, this was exactly the opposite of what my social justice classes said about it.

This is a great animated video by Richard Heinberg
to promo his book

 Very good article on the Oil Drum, rubbing in the fact that in the long term, exponential energy growth is impossible...

   http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8155

   Not assumption, not dogma, not belief, not opinion. Stone cold mathematical & physical fact.

  I did a quick calculation for population, and can confidently say that not one single creature * in the universe has managed 360 doublings, within the past 15 billion years.

Ecologize Growth...A challenge to the commonly accepted infinite growth
paradigm of the modern economy.  Can we use the opportunity of the
economic crisis to heal our relationship with money and discover
the true value of life?

I picked this item from the 6/6 DD where I was going to reply, but thought it deserved its own thread.....

I read this last night before going to bed (local Australian time..) and gave it a lot of thought....  and I hope this post doesn't turn into a long rambling raving discourse, because in my opinion this statement just over simplifies things.  Remember, we live in a complex world..

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• Too Big To Punish
• Gas tanks are draining family budgets
• Global Industrial Growth To Slow Soon
• Western Australia shuns Canberra, eyes China
• Peak oil and the Fall of the Soviet Union: Lessons on the 20th Anniversary of the Collapse
• Russia Grain Curbs Ending as Drought Wilts Europe Crops

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• Meredith Whitney Called To Testify Before House On Her Muni Call
• Oil Prices: Too Early For A Choke Point
• Growth Of World Hydrocarbon Prices Can No Longer Help Russia
• Reagan for President...of China!
• U.S. Jobless Rate Falls to 9% in January; Payrolls Rise 36,000
• Weather a Factor in Slow U.S. Job Growth
• Oil Near $91 in New York After Falling on U.S. Economy, Supplies

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• Egypt And Tunisia Usher In The New Era Of Global Food Revolutions
• Mauldin: A Bubble in Complacency
• What Happens Next: The US Consumer Sector Gets Crushed
• The 5 Black Swans That Keep Dylan Grice Up At Night... And How To Hedge Against Them All
• Consumer Spending in U.S. Rose More Than Estimated
• Euro Rises Versus Dollar as Inflation Accelerates; Canadian Dollar Climbs
• Irish Central Bank Lowers Growth Forecast for 2011

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