Growth… Can we? Should we?

Peter McMahon, writing in the On line Opinion presents an intriguing position that…

The radical impact of new information technologies and the rise of the global crises (global warming, peak oil and the like) are forcing a new kind of politics into being.

He suggests [as many of us would agree] that twenty-first century society will be defined by the need to confront the material limitations of economic growth.

Link: No more seduction by spin.