Tom Ellis
Nov 29, 2023

Thank you for this assessment, Will. I am clueless about macroeconomics, but I can follow your logic: a model is only as robust as the assumptions on which it is based, and economists are notorious for operating from assumptions based on history, while ignoring the baseline fact that our global economy is predicated on the delusion of infinite growth of population, production, and consumption on a finite planet and biological support system that depends on constants like a reliable climate, available freshwater, and diversity and resilience of the biota we depend on for food. There is no guarantee that this biological support system will be able to withstand an accelerating rise in global mean temperatures and their feedback effects…

Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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