Hi all,
I hope this is not bad Internet etiquette, but I want to invite new
Ecopath subscribers to my website and book, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway
Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop Them All.
Then I�m going to sign off for the time being.
Part 1 of Shoveling Fuel is a critique of mainstream ("neoclassical")
economic growth theory from a wildlife biologist�s perspective. Part 2
lays out a plan for a social, class-based, non-violent revolution with
classes identified based upon personal consumption expenditures.
Shoveling Fuel is my attempt to slow the runaway train of economic
bloating. I put a lot into it and doubt that I�ll ever make a better run
at it. After all, I had the "luxury" of being unemployed and therefore
focused, fresh off my doctoral research no less. I hope you get a chance
to read Shoveling Fuel and let me know what you think. I tried to make
it enjoyable to read, despite the ponderous nature of the topic!
Take care,
Brian Czech
(www.steadystate.org)
(or, alternatively,
http://homestead.juno.com/brianczech/steadystate.html)
On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:45:10 -0500 Greg Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Along the lines of this thread, I just recently ran across a web
> site/organization that is trying in its own way to deal with the
> issues of
> voluntary simplicity, reduced consumerism, and environmental
> protection.
>
> http://www.newdream.org
>
> Fairly interesting, worthwhile intentions anyways...
>
> Greg
>
> Loren Muldowney wrote:
>
> > I am presently reading a good book (for about the 10th time), the
> gist
> > of which insists that until and unless we use numerate analysis of
> > statements like those below, we don't have a prayer of solving
> "the
> > problem"
> >
> > Proportions, rates, time scales can all be applied to ideas such
> as the
> > three quotes-without numbers they are correct only in a poetic
> sense.
> >
> > "Living Within Limits," and "Filters Against Folly" both by
> Ecologist
> > Garrett Hardin. Worth reading, if the goal is to move beyond
> poetry to
> > the realm of ecologically coherent action.
> >
> > It's a big problem because the world seems to be literally
> crawling with
> > people who are convinced that they cannot do math, even of an
> extremely
> > simple sort. I fuss over this quite a lot since I am in a
> teaching
> > position. I KNOW that most of my students are NOT too stupid to
> do
> > simple arithmetic, but many refuse to even try. There is a lot of
> > "learned helplessness" going on, and I spend a lot of time trying
> to
> > stimulate a wee bit of thinking.
> >
> > Loren
> >
> > jeff owens wrote:
> > >
> > > Here are three quotes that say the same
> > > thing:
> > >
> > > What you do to the earth, you do
> > > to yourself. -- Julia Butterfly Hill
> > >
> > > Everything is connected.
> > >
> > > Only by viewing people as special or
> > > godlike can we separate from the earth.
> > > This is how most cultures view the world
> > > and few people recognize it as fantasy.
> > >
> > > jeff
> >
> > --
> > Loren Muldowney
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Brian Czech
Arlington, VA
USA
