Our cornucopian economic and social narrative is in a state of denial and delusions. We have volumes of science that tell us what we are doing economically and socially is not sustainable. We cannot keep expanding our economy and population. We are trying to expand our economy and we are unable. Our population growth in uncontrollable even if we wanted to. What is even more of a catch 22 with our human arrangement is it is irreversible. We cannot degrowth without catastrophic collapse. We have far too many people that must be fed. Starvation and famine lead to failed states failed state in a complex global system like ours. This leads to generalized globalized failure. Just because it has not happened yet is no reason it won’t. If Saudi Arabia collapses so will the globalized world if its oil resources are destroyed. This is the inconvenient truth of complexity. […]