The Growth is Madness! header photo is a manipulated version of a photo taken by Rama. (licensed under a Creative Commons “Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 France” licence) It expresses the view of someone in Lausanne protesting the World Economic Forum and its role in corporate globalization. It was the inspiration for the title of this weblog.
GIM
GIM is now an archive, rarely maintained at all. My thinking has evolved since the site was active. My current site is at johnfeeney.net.
GIM addresses humanity's most urgent challenge: the need to confront our continued irrational push for unending growth on a finite earth. The emphasis is on population growth and corporate economic growth as they interact with resource consumption rates and our reliance on fossil energy, pushing us toward global ecological collapse.
Basics
Quotes
"We've been too kind to those who are destroying the planet.We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind." -- Derrick Jensen
"As the materialization of alienation, agriculture is the triumph of estrangement and the definite divide between culture and nature and humans from each other." -- John Zerzan
"The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people but to poor ideology or land-use management is sophistic." -- E.O. Wilson
Notes and updates
- September 18, 2008: Check out the Global Population Speak Out!
- May 5, 2008: Latest article - published in the Guardian. I think this may be my most important article to date. It's an effort to dismantle the argument that we can solve our environmental woes by reducing per person consumption while ignoring population. My other comments on it are here.
- April - May, 2008: Radio series on population and the global ecological crisis. This is running on Free Range Thought, WKNY Radio (1490 AM), Kingston, New York. I'm involved as a guest or "cohost" on many of the shows.
- 2007 ECO Award: I'm pleased to report receiving a 2007 ECO Award from the Earth Community Organization for the essay, "Six steps to 'getting' the global ecological crisis." Thanks!
- Don't miss the guest articles by ... 2008: Albert Bandura, February 18; Ken Whitehead, January 17; Brad Arnold, January 5 | 2007: Abdul Basit, December 13; Russ Hopfenberg, December 6; Jim Lydecker, November 25; Brian Czech, November 15; Glen Barry, October 22; Adam W. Parsons, October 7; Emily Spence, October 1; Herman Daly, September 3; Jerry West, August 18; Kent Welton, July 29; J. Kenneth Smail, July 13
Blogroll
- 3E Intelligence
- andrewJESAITIS
- ariafritta
- Babylon and Beyond
- Betray the Age
- Bioregional Animism
- Blå skärm-Crashing system
- Canada The Sinking Lifeboat
- CASSE’s blog
- Civilization’s Future
- Dismantle Civilisation
- Earth Blog
- Earth Spirit
- Ecological Economics
- Economic Dreams – Economic Nightmares
- Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development
- Evolving Thoughts
- feralkevin
- Friendly Ghost
- Gaian Economics
- Goosed
- IH – Blog
- James’ Blog
- JohnFeeney.net Blog
- Logical Science
- Mobjectivist
- Mulig
- Optimum Population Trust Blog
- Papukaijapäiväkirjat
- Peak Energy
- Peak Food
- Peak Oil Medicine
- politickybitch
- Population Action International Blog
- Population Media Center Blog
- Question Everything
- Resource Insights
- Ruminations
- Spirituality and Ecological Hope
- SusHI
- sustainability dharma
- Sustainable Population
- Sustainable Salmon Arm
- The Adventures of Urban Scout
- The Natural Patriot
- The Solemn Monkey
- Tony Isn’t a Credible Source
- Transition Times
- Verdurous
- Walking Turcot Yards
- Wild Green Yonder
- Zone5
Books
- Against the Grain
- Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
- Ecological Economics
- Endgame
- Ishmael
- Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
- Market, Schmarket: Building the Post-Capitalist Economy
- One with Nineveh
- Overshoot: The Ecological Basis for Revolutionary Change
- Peak Everything
- Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train
- Sparing Nature
- The Eden Proposition
- The Essential Exponential!
- Too Many People
Ecology and Environmental Science
- ActionBioscience.org
- Carrying Capacity Summary
- Dependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity
- Ecological Society of America
- Encyclopedia of Earth
- Footprint of Nations
- Global Footprint Network
- Human Carrying Capacity of Earth
- Industrialization: Prelude to Collapse
- Malthus: More Relevant Than Ever
- Overshoot in a nutshell (Malthus was an optimist)
- Simple demonstration that we are in overshoot of the human carrying capacity of the earth
- STIRPAT: A Research Program in Structural Human Ecology
- World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
Economic issues
- African Society For Ecological Economics
- Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics
- Canadian Society for Ecological Economics
- Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
- CorpWatch
- Economics in a Full World
- Gaian Economics Collective
- Genuine Progress Indicator
- Green Economics
- Growthism – The ‘Economic’ Cancer of Growth-To-Ruin
- Gund Institute
- International Society for Ecological Economics
- Post-Autistic Economics Network
- Redefining Progress
- Share The World’s Resources
- Uneconomic Growth: in Theory, in Fact, in History and in Relation to Globalization
- United States Society for Ecological Economics
Environmental resources
Major Reports
- FAO: The State of Food Insecurity in the World – 2006
- IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- Return of the Population Growth Factor
- UN report: Global Environment Outlook
- World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity
- WWF’s Living Planet Report
Peak oil
Politics and Policy
Population growth
- AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment
- Brother, Can You Spare a Species? – By Jeffrey McKee
- Center for Environment and Population
- Club of Ten Million
- Confronting the Twenty-First Century’s Hidden Crisis: Reducing Human Numbers by 80%
- Die Off
- Doctors for Sustainable Population
- Global Population Speak Out
- Guttmacher Institute
- International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- Jeffrey K. McKee on population
- John Feeney
- New England Coaltion for Sustainable Population
- NUPEO
- Optimum Population Trust
- Pan Earth
- Population Action International
- Population and Sustainability Network
- Population Connection
- Population Growth –The Neglected Dimension of America’s Persistent Energy/Environmental Problems
- Population Institute
- Population Institute of Canada
- Population Media Center
- Population Press
- Population Reference Bureau
- Population Resource Center
- Religious Consultation, The
- Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory
- Sustainable Population Australia
- The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization (1970–1998)
- The Human Population Explosion and the Future of Life – By Dave Foreman
- The Massive Movement to Marginalize the Modern Malthusian Message
- The Population Institute
- United Nations Population Division
- United Nations Population Fund
- Vermonters for a Sustainable Population
- Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
- World Population Awareness
- World Population Balance
Sustainability and the Big picture
- Africa in 2040
- Al Bartlett
- Albert Bartlett’s Home Page
- Anthropik Network
- Approaching the Limits to Growth
- Civilization’s Future
- Consumption Growth 101
- Culture Change
- Derrick Jensen
- DrTom Building an Environmental Community
- Film — What a Way to Go
- Goosed
- Heuristic Films
- Ishmael.org
- John Feeney
- Minnesotans for Sustainability
- People & the Planet
- Reflections on Sustainability …. (Al Bartlett)
- REWILD.info
- Solar Car and Tractor
- Sustainability Institute
- Terminal Growth in a Finite World
- The Community Solution
- The Relocalization Network
- The Sustainable Scale Project
- The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
- Toby Hemenway
- Transition Boulder County
Urban growth
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