By: Byron Smith
The link between debt and sin is retained (or hinted at) in English in the Lord’s prayer, where one old form said “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” while more contemporary forms prefer...
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Oh, and a more general comment, if you haven't already seen it, you might be interested in <a...
View ArticleBy: Stefan Thiesen
Byron – I also observed this quasi orwellian shift from “sustainability” (an obvious common sense goal) to “sustainable growth” (already an equally obvious oxymoron). Sustained growth is probably what...
View ArticleBy: Stefan Thiesen
Still so in German in the still contemporary Lord’s player (vergib uns unsere SCHULD (guilt/debt) wie auch wir vergeben unseren SCHULDIGERN (clearly debtors and debtors only in contemporary German). I...
View ArticleBy: Jeremy
Yes, that’s an interesting bit of semantics. If you can’t commit to sustainable development, but can’t be seen to reject it – change the definition! I noticed the same thing at work in Britain’s new...
View ArticleBy: Jeremy
Yes, if one or two heads of state or bank CEO had the nerve to come out and say it, I suspect others would follow. Everyone knows eternal growth is a contradiction. On the plus side, a meta-lie like...
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[...] growth’. It’s always turning up in government papers or the documents like the UN’s recent Rio +20 agreement. Green growth is an attempt to turn big environmental problems into opportunities for...
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[...] was also pleased to see he basically presented the argument behind this website to the Rio +20 summit earlier this [...]
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By: Black Arts
I find it strange that people still struggle with the Infinite growth versus a finite resource. It’s a mathematical impossibility. You would think Joe Public could get his/her head around it. We only...
View ArticleBy: Drafting the Sustainable Development Goals | Make Wealth History
[…] with goals 12, 13 or 14. But I’m in the minority here. The Rio document is thoroughly in hock to GDP growth. As George Monbiot wrote last week, questioning growth is “the 21st Century’s great […]
View ArticleBy: Stefan Thiesen
I maintain Professor Hans Christoph Binswanger’s observation (senior Swiss economist) that when he encountered the growth “belief” (he calls it a religion) it was an entire novelty for him and his...
View ArticleBy: Byron Smith
I sometimes wonder if we need some political martyrs, who are willing to come out and say these things directly, even if it costs them re-election. But once the ice is broken, then it may allow others...
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