Too Big to Fail

Ecological Ignorance and Economic Collapse

In nature, nothing is too big to fail. In fact, big is bound to fail. To understand why that's so means stepping away from a prevailing set of beliefs that holds us in its sway, especially the deep conviction that we operate apart from nature's limits and rules. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 21, 2009

Ward looks at our economic mess and bigness from an ecological framework. This is a good read.

freeing an already big corporate system of almost all regulation so that it can grow even bigger does not, in fact, encourage creativity; it just hastens the consolidation phase.

Once you have driven off a cliff, it does you little good to realize that you are falling.

A capitalist economy based on constant, unlimited growth is a reckless fantasy because ecosystems are not limitless

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