Slamming Face-First into the Limits to Growth

Executive Summary Escalating costs of resource extraction and associated pollution are key headwinds on future economic growth For the first time in generations, the same limits to growth that handicapped pre-industrial society are reasserting themselves Our economic and political leaders are misdiagnosing the root problem, and therefore prescribing the wrong treatments Remember stagflation? Get ready to experience it again – with a vengeance If you have not yet read The Tangled Relationship between Wealth & Money available free to all readers, please click here to read it first. The forces driving today’s ongoing economic crisis were sketched out decades ago in the pages of the Club of Rome’s epochal 1973 study, The Limits to Growth.  Mention that book to most people nowadays, and those who admit they’ve heard of it at all routinely in...