Current economic growth has uncoupled itself from the world and has become irrelevant. Worse, it has become a blind guide. - Herman Daly

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I’m not satisfied until I get the answers.

The notion of a steady state has meant different things at different times in history. To the traditional or classical economist, the steady state takes the biophysical dimensions of the planet — including population and available resources — as given and adapts technology and tastes to these objective conditions.

There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business in liquidation.