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comment by veen
veen  ·  1674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 28, 2019

One of the more important origins of the sustainability movement as we know it now was the 1972's Club of Rome report 'The Limits to Growth'. I am pretty sure that Le Guin was inspired by that, considering the publications are only two years apart.

There are some people who still hold on to the idea of infinite, exponential growth, but I am definitely not one of them. For me, reading Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything was an eye opener in just how tightly related capitalism and climate change are.





kleinbl00  ·  1674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What's funny is how many people made fun of Limits To Growth and how wrong World3 was when in fact, when you look at the numbers, they fucking nailed it.

veen  ·  1674 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh damn that's pretty cool, hadn't seen that comparison before. Now I kinda want a poster of that World3 diagram, it looks dope.

ilex  ·  1673 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm going to look both of those up. I've been sour on exponential growth (and capitalism) for a bit now -- feels like it's mostly promoted by people trying to make a quick buck rather than people trying to do good.

veen  ·  1670 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not sure if I'd still recommend Naomi Klein. Her tone of outrage gets tedious fast, and it's a longass book. Wells has a better grasp of current science, but does not really give many pointers towards solutions.