The global economy is in bad shape and getting worse

[dreamnightwind]

4. Yes

Unfortunately, as I understand it, our economies are not designed to gracefully decelerate, which as you point out is what is needed for the sake of the planet and our own survival. I've been waiting to see how they intend to do this, and keep seeing nothing but the same old paradigm, grow or die. It's the axiom of capitalism, I suppose.

I'd think we could have less babies, produce more of our goods locally, cooperate rather than compete, travel less (with web conferencing this is increasingly feasible) and ship less goods, not to mention that with the slow-down there would be less of a push for resource extraction from other countries, hence less wars, and the U.S. military is supposedly the single greatest polluter on the planet.