From the space race to human race

"The recent report from the Sustainable Development Commission - Prosperity Without Growth - ought to be a bomb under both economics' and sustainable development's easy chairs, with its tough message that growth economics is incompatible this particular planet."

In a truly excellent article for BBC's Green Room, John Manoochehri cites Tim Jackson's Prosperity Without Growth as a crutial part of his call for us to recapture the spirit that took us into space and use that energy to save the planet... read the full article here.