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Enough is Enough
I first “met” Dan O’Neill in the spring of 2009 when I was researching an article for the New York Society of Security Analysts about Herman Daly and his groundbreaking vision of the steady state economy. At the time Dan was the European director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) and a postgraduate research student at the University of Leeds. He introduced me to the nuances of the ecological footprint and we talked about what it might mean for an economy to approach a “steady”—prosperous, nongrowing—state.
Dan, currently a lecturer in ecological economics at the University of Leeds, and Rob Dieitz, first director of the CASSE and editor of the Daly News, have now co-authored Enough is Enough, a collection of not-so-modest proposals for achieving the steady state.
Financial Overshoot
Submitted by Dan Thompson on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 5:46pm- Big Choice
- Big Choice
- Bill McKibben
- Bill McKibben
- Carbon Tracker
- Carbon Tracker
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecological Overshoot
- Ecological Overshoot
- Global Footprint Network
- Global Footprint Network
- Herman Daly
- Herman Daly
- Ponzi Scheme
- Ponzi Scheme
- Potsdam Institute
- Potsdam Institute
- Rolling Stone
- Rolling Stone
Author:
John Fullerton
Last week, I gave a talk to the Missouri Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems annual meeting. This was the first time I presented my developing thesis of financial overshoot, which arithmetically accompanies ecological overshoot unless we manage to decouple economic growth from material resource throughput in the economy, the Hail Mary pass of all time.
The implications are not comforting for investors, especially for pension funds which have plenty of problems already with underfunded pension plans in a climate of financial repression caused by zero interest rates and economic stagnation.
Ecological Footprint Creators Win Prestigious Kenneth Boulding Award
Dr. Mathis Wackernagel and Dr. William Rees, co-creators of the Ecological Footprint, have been named the winners of the 2012 Kenneth E. Boulding Award, the world’s top honor in the field of ecological economics. The biennial award is given to “outstanding individuals who have contributed original and seminal approaches that have furthered our understanding of the interfaces between the social, ecological, ethical, economic and political dimensions of our world,” said The International Society for Ecological Economics in announcing the award.
