The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781452635903 (1452635900)
Publish date: December 30th 2011
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
The title of the book states its content. The Club of Rome wrote on the limits of growth; now, Heinberg argues, we've reached them. Our economic system is based on continual growth of the GDP. If that growth is driven by cheap energy, and cheap energy is at an end as easily accessible carbon fuel so...
I am torn about this book. It was a bit of a downer pretty much the whole way through. I liked that it touched on the financial markets, but not really in any depth. The same could be said for the entire book. I felt like "Limits to Growth" was a better argument for the end of growth concept, an...