Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Labor’s declining share and future quality of life
Neva Goodwin presents her talk about the ways that societies and individuals could respond to a coming decline in labor productivity at the symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Limits to Growth.
Neva Goodwin is Co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. She works to systematize and institutionalize “contextual economics,” an economic theory she believes will have [...]
Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Climate change and energy; challenges and opportunities
Richard Alley speaks about climate change and some of the opportunities we have to build a better future by using renewable energy sources and moving away from dependence on fossil fuels. His talk was part of the symposium put on by the Smithsonian Institution and the Club of Rome to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Limits to Growth study.
Richard [...]
Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Biodiversity past, present and future
Doug Erwin speaks about the challenges of preserving biodiversity on our planet as part of the symposium to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Limits to Growth held in Washington DC in March 2012.
Doug Erwin is a paleobiologist and evolutionary biologist. He works as a Senior Scientist in the Department of Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History and as [...]
Perspectives on Limits to Growth: World on the Edge
Lester Brown speaks about his ideas to sustain civilization through cutting carbon emissions, stabilizing the global population, eradicating poverty, and restoring our resource bases at the 40th anniversary celebration of Limits to Growth. Lester Brown is the founder of both the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute and the author of many books on sustainability, agriculture, economics, and society.
Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Lessons of forty years of promoting limits to growth
