{"id":4515,"date":"2013-08-20T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=4515"},"modified":"2013-08-20T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T17:26:52","slug":"herman-daly-on-fracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/08\/20\/herman-daly-on-fracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman Daly on Fracking, Growth, and Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/steadystate.org\/the-fracking-of-the-limits-to-growth\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DalyNews+%28The+Daly+News%29\">here<\/a>, to read Herman Daly on <em>The Fracking of the Limits to Growth<\/em>. \u00a0Here's a brief taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The first Woodlands Conference in 1975 was a great success. \u00a0Its theme was \u201cAlternatives to Growth.\u201d \u00a0In addition to the Meadows, speakers included E. F. Schumacher, Jay Forrester, Wendell Berry, Lester Brown, Amory Lovins, Bruce Hannon, Gerald Barney, and many others including yours truly. \u00a0The anti-limits position was led by Herman Kahn. The idea of a steady-state economy got a respectful hearing. \u00a0It was an excellent beginning, to be followed by four more conferences on the same theme.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Somehow by the third conference the theme had mutated from \u201climits and alternatives to growth\u201d to \u201cmanagement of sustainable growth.\u201d \u00a0The leadership passed from Meadows and Meadows to the Aspen Institute and the University of Houston. \u00a0Instead of challenging business-as-usual, the emphasis shifted to sucking up as usual to business interests. \u00a0The new, \u201cmore balanced\u201d view was that we really must not limit growth, just focus on good growth rather than bad growth. Growth had somehow become \u201csustainable,\u201d contrary to the main conclusion of\u00a0The Limits to Growth. \u00a0The reasoning behind this reversal was kept vague. \u00a0There was an utter failure of nerve on the part of scientists and especially economists to confront the continuing challenge that George Mitchell and the Meadows had initially set up. Indeed, practically no economists attended the conference. \u00a0The very idea of limiting growth was too big a pill for economists, politicians, and most scientists to swallow. They coughed it up and silently spit it into their napkin at the conference banquet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it ends this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The bad news is that evidently things still have to get much worse before we will muster the courage and clarity to try to make them better. \u00a0The \u201cgood news\u201d is that things are indeed getting worse \u2014 thanks to our mistaken belief that growth in GDP and its close correlate, resource throughput, must, even in a full world, always\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/steadystate.org\/wealth-illth-and-net-welfare\/\">increase wealth faster than illth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I confess, I had to look \"illth\" up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here, to read Herman Daly on The Fracking of the Limits to Growth. \u00a0Here's a brief taste: The first Woodlands Conference in 1975 was a great success. \u00a0Its theme was \u201cAlternatives to Growth.\u201d \u00a0In addition to the Meadows, speakers...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}