"Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can do that"

"What would we do with 100% clean energy? Exactly what we are doing with fossil fuels: raze more forests, build more meat farms, expand industrial agriculture, produce more cement, and fill more landfill sites, all of which will pump deadly amounts of greenhouse gas into the air. We will do these things because our economic system demands endless compound growth, and for some reason we have not thought to question this."

Clean energy won’t save us – only a new economic system can do that

It’s time to pour our creative energies into imagining a new global economy. Infinite growth is a dangerous illusion

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