Development on a finite planet
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https://doi.org/10.22335/rlct.v3i1.104Keywords:
Sustainable development, Limits to growth, Carrying capacity, Growth economics, Collapse, Steady-State EconomicsAbstract
Present global human development, based on economic and population growth, is shown to have exceeded the global carrying capacity for our species. It is unsustainable and, unless changed, will lead to collapse. Attempts to solve the present global economic crisis by increasing growth can only worsen it and speed the road to collapse. Avoiding collapse requires urgent shift from present economics of growth to Steady-State Economics, both at the global and national levels.
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