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Economic growth is more than an observable fact - it's a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should - even that they must - expand in wealth into the indefinite future? Did they think about the limits of…
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1 author picked The Great Delusion as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it explains in a compelling and highly readable way why we humans have charted a path utterly dependent on fossil fuels that marks the Anthropocene and threatens our way of life, if not our very existence. And ultimately, why California will continue to burn. Like Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Michael Lobel, Stoll shows us our future by digging into our nineteenth-century past.
It is our relentless quest to accumulate and consume that will spell our doom. This need translates into a global and collective pursuit of economic growth. To be sure, oil companies have sowed…
From Michael's list on why wildfires will continue to burn California.
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