Letter

In response to The steady-state economy: Why we need it and how it could be progressed

How to save ourselves and our planet

Mark Diesendorf explains clearly and succinctly how we can save ourselves and our planet. If you skipped over it, I urge you to go back and read it in its entirety.

Central to it is the fundamental fact that “green growth” is and will remain impossible – at best a well-intentioned myth, at worst a malevolent lie.

The essay should be compulsory reading for all members of our new government, speaking as it does to every decision they will make. Perhaps it could be given a permanent place in the Pearls & Irritations “Top five”.

— Richard Barnes from Melbourne