Bill McKibben - Downsides to Economic Growth

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=815

Author and environmentalist Bill McKibben discusses his groundbreaking new book "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future". He also criticizes sustained economic growth, a policy goal, he argues, whose costs outweigh its benefits.

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Bill McKibben
McKibben focuses on the point where environmental and economic issues intersect, offering revolutionary ideas for approaching these problems. This is one of the most important books to be published on issues relating to global warming. McKibben is the author of "Hundred Dollar Holiday," "Maybe One," and "Hope, Human and Wild"