Qualitative Growth

By Susan Seymour on February 21, 2010

I can recommend a short, well-written paper by Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson called Qualitative Growth which is published, perhaps surprisingly, by the Institute of Chartered Accountants and Tomorrow’s Company, a business group. It sets out very clearly the fallacy that endless growth is natural. In nature living things grow to a natural size. Quantitative growth is compared with cancer which kills its host.
The paper can be downloaded here: http://www.icaew.com and search for Outside Insights.

Also for a laugh with a really serious point please pay a visit to www.impossiblehamster.org
It’s a one minute clip from the new economics foundation which gets over the message that growth is unsustainable.

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