Tag: Club of Rome

MEC: Exhausting Scarce Resources?

Mar 26, 2008

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mwkruse

in Capitalism and Markets, Economic Development, Economics, Environment, Series: Must Everything Change?, Trends: Economic

I've made the case that Everything Must Change suffers from a parochialism of the present. It fails to see the trajectory society has been moving. But there is another way this parochialism is at work. It merely projects the present into the future. It fails to sufficiently consider future adaptations in human behavior and technology.…
Living Simply in Abundance (14)

Jan 7, 2008

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mwkruse

in Demography, Economics, Great Divergence, History, Human Progress, Series: Living Simply in Abundance, Trends: Economic

“Material abundance is (A) rapidly depleting our resources and (B) destroying our environment.” This has become the refrain of a new generation of neo-Malthusian environmentalists in our day. It’s widespread in Mainline (National Council of Churches denominations) and is the dominant viewpoint among influential emerging church notables (Brian McLaren’s “Everything Must Change” is a prime…