
This Civilization is Finished | Before the Collapse | Why We Believe
Much public discourse, if you can call it that, revolves around keeping economic expansion going, assuming that no alternative exists. Economists refer to the opposite of expansion as contraction, presuming that it’s a temporary blip in inevitable expansion. All their nostrums propose to revive expansion. By contrast, “Compression” proposes living with less, presuming that we have put Planet Earth […]