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<div><font face="Times" color="#1A1718">Why the Economy Should Stop
Growing-And Just Grow Up</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva"><i>David Korten posted May 04,
2016</i></font></div>
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>http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/why-the-economy-should-stop-growin<span
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Listen to the political candidates
as they put forward their economic solutions. You will hear a
well-established and rarely challenged narrative. "We must grow the
economy to produce jobs so people will have the money to grow their
consumption, which will grow more jobs" Grow. Grow.
Grow.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1">But children and adolescents<i>
grow</i>. Adults<i> mature</i>. It is time to reframe the debate to
recognize that we have pushed growth in material consumption beyond
Earth's environmental limits. We must now shift our economic
priority from growth to maturity-meeting the needs of all within the
limits of what Earth can provide.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"The first
commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger.
National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year.
People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more -- ever
more."<br>
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Donella Meadows. Just So Much And No More.<i> Yes</i> magazine June
30, 2001</font></div>
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>http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/reclaiming-the-commons/437</u></font
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000">"Once we finally
reach a decision we are relieved to have the uncertainly of decision
making behind us. And now somebody turns up and tells us things that
call the wisdom of that decision into question again." (pp.
99-100)<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Dietrich
Dorner.</font><font face="Bookman Old Style" color="#000000"><i> The
Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex
Situations</i></font><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><i>.</i><br>
1989 in German by Rowolt Verlag GMBH.<br>
1996 in English by Metropolitan Books, Perseus Books.</font></div>
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