Bottom line, straight talk on climate change.
This is the kind of messaging we need on climate change: it’s here now, it’s getting a lot worse in a big hurry, and everything – literally everything – about our economy, our institutions and our world is going to change as a result of it. This is not a polemic from environmentalists asking you to please care about their pet issue. This is straight talk on what humanity needs to do to handle this existential challenge, undoubtedly the most important problem facing the world right now. Well-written, concise, backed up with sound sources and quotes, “Moving to a Finite Earth Economy” tells it like it really is. Highly recommended.
– Sean Munger, PhD, Environmental Historian
Action-Provoking Book
This book is a fairly quick read but provides a lasting impact. It was a wake-up call for me. I have a great deal of work to do personally to move into the circular economy before I’m a full crew member in the finite economy. I look forward to the next two books.
– Cindy Tavera
The elephant in the room (or in the air)
Question: What would be the weight of 300 four-ton elephants times each second of the day times each day for an entire year?
Answer: 37 gigatons.
That’s how much CO2 we pumped into the air in 2018. This is why I love David’s writing . . . he and Bob Leonard make the numbers clearly articulate the unpaid costs we’ve run up in languishing in our Growth Economy, all to make clear the imperative that we must move to the Finite Earth Economy.
– Kevin Conlon
Important Call to Action
It will only take you an hour to read Moving to a Finite Earth Economy – Crew Manual: The Three Economies. But try forgetting it afterward. In this compact manifesto, David Houle and Bob Leonard address climate change in clear, understandable terms. Their premise is that we have until 2030 to avoid catastrophic change or possible extinction of our species. They explore three types of economies: the Growth Economy, the present consumerist paradigm that has brought us to the edge of elimination; the Circular Economy, the recycle-reduce-reuse model that never gained the popularity it needed to make a crucial difference; and the Finite Earth Economy, the only viable option. Houle and Leonard will present the Finite Earth Economy in greater detail in Volumes 2 and 3, which are now being written. But for now, read and heed. Our survival could well hinge on it.
– Burt J. Kempner
A Crucial Call to Action for the Crew of Spaceship Earth
David Houle once again issues a much-needed, timely wake-up call. Perpetual economic growth just doesn’t work and is the main contributor to our current global climate crisis. The need to adopt the “crew consciousness” that Houle advocates couldn’t be clearer. This book – along with all of Houle’s earlier writing – represents an important step in making that happen.
– Jeff Cobb
We Are at the Tipping Point
This book will shake your safe belief system to the core. Take a look at how we’ve been operating that just hasn’t worked, how we keep doing the same things and hoping for different outcomes….a sure sign of insanity. Get it, read it, then think about it every single day so you can start to make the paradigm shift in attitude and action that is needed to begin rescuing us from the edge of the cliff. If you have the courage.
– Carole A. Martin
