Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (62 page)

American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 98, 183, 192–193, 195–196, 197, 198, 207, 208–209, 215–216, 230, 315n95

American Petroleum Institute, 206, 208, 215

Americans for Prosperity, 192, 207

American Way campaign, 174–176, 179, 180, 187

American way of life, 129–130, 178

APCO Associates, 219, 229, 230

Aral Sea, 12, 84

Arndt, H. W., 107, 166–167, 274

Arnold, Ron, 207, 209, 234

Arrighi, Giovanni, 113, 247

Asbestos, 202, 216, 230, 238

Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
See
Global middle class

Astroturf, 206–207

Atlas Foundation, 89, 192, 196, 199, 201

Australian Industry Greenhouse Network (AIGN), 211, 223–224, 317n53

Babson, Roger, 171

Baer, George, 169

Bagnall, Diana, 199–200

Bailey, Ronald, 217, 258–262, 264–265

Bailouts, 99, 117, 251

Balance, xx, 191, 194, 201, 216, 222, 235–237

Balling, Robert, 208, 223

Barker, Debi, 246

Barton, Bruce, 173–174

Beckerman, Wilfred, 18, 53, 58–59, 61

Beder, Sharon, 65, 183, 193–194, 202, 238, 241, 248

Begley, Sharon, 215

Bernays, Edward, 71, 74–77, 88, 165, 171–173, 175, 180–181, 202, 228, 234, 245, 279

Bilderberg Group, 245–246, 247, 321n26

Birdsall, Nancy, 113

Birol, Fatih, 263

Birrell, Bob, 290

Birth control.
See
Family planning

Bolivia, 105, 153–155

Bologna, Gianfranco, 102

Boulding, Kenneth, 16, 33

Boykoff, Jules, 237

Boykoff, Maxwell, 237

Brandt, Karl, 45, 189

Brazil, 46–47, 111, 124, 140, 151–152, 244, 305n62

Bretton Woods, 91, 112, 239, 245, 246, 301n33

Brundtland Commission, 38, 125–128, 130, 132, 151, 276

Buchsbaum, Anthony, 187, 202

Buckley, Ross, 117, 124

Buckley, William, 258

Burrow, Sharan, 243, 320n14

Bush, George H. W., 36, 129–130, 237

Bush, George W., 34, 37, 99–100, 130, 215–216, 223, 227

Business Council of Australia (BCA), 199, 204, 213

Business Roundtable (US), 203–204, 247, 254

Cahill, Damien, 197

Campbell, Colin, 263

Canan, Penelope, 210

Capitalism.
See also
Profit motive

accumulation, 5–7, 10, 12, 65, 68, 93, 108–109, 174, 181, 272

class offensive, 275

competition, 49, 99, 106, 107, 167, 179, 182

creative destruction, 72, 99, 212, 221

emergence of, 3, 5–7, 18–20

industrial capitalism, 6–9, 23, 54, 68

primitive accumulation, 3, 5–6, 87, 111

world market, 9, 12, 29, 46, 68, 98, 277

Capital mobility.
See
Finance capital

Carbon dioxide emissions.
See
Greenhouse gas emissions

Carey, Alex, 165, 200

Carpenter, Gary, 197

Carson, Rachel, 33, 188

Carson, Richard, 156

Carter, Bob, 209, 237

Carter, Jimmy, 40, 62, 97, 204, 218, 257–258

Cash crops, 44, 46, 119

Catch-up, 28, 111–112, 119, 122–124, 148, 153.
See also
Truman, Harry

Cato Institute, 192–193, 207, 209, 216, 217, 230, 258, 315n95

Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE), 285–286

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), 209, 234

Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), 197, 199, 237

Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), 96

Chains of production.
See
Globalization

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 271

Chamber of Commerce, International (ICC), 247, 252

Chamber of Commerce (US), 171, 175, 177, 179, 184, 189–190, 192, 197, 201, 203, 209, 216, 247, 254

Chandler, Alfred, 167–168

Chang, Ha-Joon, 114–115

Chemicals industry, 137, 156, 192, 195, 203, 206, 216–217, 219, 228–229, 238

Chenery, Hollis, 131

Cheney, Dick, 218

Cheney, Lynne, 215

Chevron, 206, 208

Chew, Sing, 25

Chicago school, 79, 89–90, 97, 239, 302n49

Chidambaram, P., 139, 144

Chile, 89–90, 240, 242, 302n49

China, 12, 13, 19, 22–23, 46, 60, 67, 84, 101, 103, 113, 115, 120, 122–124, 133, 135–137, 140, 149–151, 153–154, 156–160, 168, 226, 228, 244, 248, 277, 281

Chomsky, Noam, 171, 179

Chowdry, Sanjay, 138, 144

Clark, Greg, 21

Class offensive.
See
Capitalism

Clausen, Rebecca, 13

Cleveland, Cutler, 262, 267

Climate change.
See
Global warming

Clinton, Bill, 130, 208, 294n1

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), 291–221, 238

Club of Rome, 35, 39, 50–52, 56, 62, 91, 245–246, 254, 257–258, 261–262, 274, 280, 321n26

Coal, 3, 6–8, 20, 22, 23–24, 48, 66, 79, 84, 108, 139, 156–157, 169, 220, 223–226, 233–234, 260, 264, 266

clean coal, 225, 266, 317n68

coal industry, 206, 208, 211, 223

Cockett, Richard, 201

Collapse, 25, 41, 56–57, 94–95, 160, 261, 266

Colonialism, 3–6, 10, 36, 44, 45, 47, 49, 54, 62, 68, 72, 81, 98, 105–107, 110, 136, 244

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, 208–209

Committee for Economic Development (CED), 181–182

Committee on Public Information (CPI).
See
Creel, George

Commodification, 9, 29, 69, 77, 86, 114–115, 126, 128, 145–147

Common good, common interest, 30, 67, 87, 88, 275, 299n3

Commons, 5, 47–49, 87, 138, 282

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO, Australia), 224, 265, 290

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), 192, 198, 215, 258

Comprehensive technology run.
See
World3

Concentration of wealth, 41, 61, 78, 93–96, 111, 119–123, 145, 169–170, 174, 270, 274, 276, 305n62

Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
See
Rio Earth Summit

Conservationism, 45, 74, 95, 214

Consumerism, 8, 36–37, 55, 62, 63, 65–66, 67–78, 85, 100, 132, 161–162, 165, 172–173, 177–178, 191, 226, 273, 276, 277, 281–283, 286, 289, 291.
See also
Debt

harnessing envy and desire, 66, 69, 71–72, 76, 78, 80, 172, 180, 273

as mature stage of economic growth, 108, 148, 165, 172

as unsustainable, 267

Consumer rights and protection, 190, 202–204, 216, 248, 252, 254, 314n71

Consumption, 6, 10–11, 15, 17, 26–27, 29, 35, 49, 122–123, 126–127, 129, 151, 153, 155–157, 259–260, 267

consumption economists, 71, 74

luxury consumption, 8, 66, 74, 95, 132, 276–277

as route to prosperity, 66, 71–72, 100–103, 106, 148–150

Convention on Biodiversity.
See
Rio Earth Summit

Conway, Erik, 219–220

Cooney, Philip, 215

Coors, Joseph, 191–192

Copenhagen climate conference, 153–154

Corporations, 48, 50, 60, 61, 65, 67–69, 73, 76–78, 83, 87–88, 91, 93, 102, 105, 131, 132, 136, 144–145, 155–156, 273, 280, 282.
See also
Private enterprise, selling of; Think tanks

against environmental protection, 156, 202–210, 211–213, 215–216, 219–226, 233, 235–236, 272

as “individuals,” 30

limited liability, 65, 87

merger and consolidation, 165–169, 172, 273, 291

power of, 39, 77, 85, 99, 111, 126, 139, 154–155, 163, 165, 180, 203, 211–212, 243–244, 246–250, 253–254, 308n60

transnationals (TNCs), 36, 62, 92, 109, 117, 126, 131, 132, 154, 155–157, 201, 239, 243, 253, 282, 306n16 (
see also
Globalization)

Costanza, Robert, 286

Cost-benefit analysis, 67, 83, 158, 221

Cowdrick, Edward, 71

Creel, George, 170–172, 175

Crichton, Michael, 218–219

Cuba, 12, 13, 147

Cullen, Peter, 236

Cummings, Barton, 194

Cushman, John, 208

Cutter, Victor, 71

Cuyahoga River, 34, 188

Dalits, 137, 139

Daly, Herman, 1, 15–16, 22, 25–27, 30, 34, 53, 132, 271, 282, 286, 291–292

Dams, 84, 92, 117, 138–139, 140–141, 150

Darling, Sir Frank Fraser, 35

Das, Samarendra, 137

Davos.
See
World Economic Forum

Day, John, 267–268

Debt, 17, 73, 75, 91–92, 107, 111, 116–119, 126, 128, 130, 139, 153, 154, 173, 240, 241–242, 251, 289

Declaration of Human Rights, 81, 85

Decoupling, 268–269, 291

Democracy, 75, 79, 88, 89–90, 108–109, 137, 165, 166, 169, 171, 177, 179, 180, 202, 232, 235, 236, 238, 244, 245, 246, 249–250, 252–254, 257, 280, 283

Denial, xx, xxiv, 24–25, 52, 58, 189, 208–210, 213–214, 218–219, 222–224, 226–230, 233, 237, 238, 271–272, 289, 312n10

Depletion, 22–23, 24, 35, 42, 49, 54, 128, 153, 158–159, 220, 263, 281.
See also
Water

Desire.
See
Consumerism, harnessing envy and desire

Developers.
See
Enclosure

Development, 27, 28, 30, 34, 36, 51, 62, 107–113, 116, 119, 123–124, 125–130, 135–139, 144, 149, 154, 157, 161, 166, 274–275, 277, 292.
See also
Aid; Sustainability

Diamond, Jared, 44

Dietz, Rob, 285–286

Dispossession.
See
Enclosure

Distribution, 6, 9, 27, 34, 36–37, 39, 54–55, 60, 81, 105, 107, 109, 111, 121, 123, 127, 129, 144, 147, 150, 166, 184, 189, 240, 274, 282, 285, 311n82

Doha round.
See
WTO

Dongria Kondh, 137–138

Doom, 24, 38, 47, 53–54, 61–62, 221, 232, 254, 258, 261, 280

Doubt, creation of, 208, 213, 218–219, 226–227, 229–231, 233, 279

Duncan, Tim, 213–214

Dunlap, Riley, 212, 232

Durning, Alan, 19

Earth Summit.
See
Rio Earth Summit

Easterly, William, 113

Ebell, Myron, 198, 208–209, 215, 217

Ecological footprint, 45, 55, 258

Economic freedom, 29, 80–81, 88–90, 179, 197

Economic growth, 15–16.
See also
Consumerism; Growth; Pie

beneficiaries of, 119–123, 126–128, 135, 141, 149, 152

and cheap energy, 3, 6, 7–8, 20, 29, 40, 93, 262–263, 267–268

five stages of, 108–109, 275

and free trade, 115, 248–249

history of, 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 17–21, 26, 33, 36, 42, 51, 90–91, 111, 119, 121, 143–144, 178, 274

ideology of, xviii–xix, 16, 27, 31, 52–53, 54, 74, 100–101, 261, 272, 280–281

intrinsic to capitalism, 66, 72, 189, 211, 292

physical impacts and parameters of, 24–25, 27, 30–31, 34, 38, 57, 59, 126, 158–159, 160, 205, 212–213, 268–270, 272, 281

as primary policy goal, 100–101, 103, 107, 150, 151, 165–166, 181, 183–184, 189, 241, 254, 261, 273–274

promotion of, xviii, 24, 72, 182, 188–189, 272

and prosperity, 103, 165–166

as solution to poverty, 55, 60–61, 70, 102–103, 106, 124, 125, 135, 136, 138–139, 141, 152–153, 162, 189, 242, 281

and sustainability, 125–128, 133, 214, 270

Economic indoctrination, 88, 180, 182–183, 187, 192, 194–197, 200, 203, 207, 278

Economics

classical, 26, 66, 79 (
see also
Political economy)

ecological, 15–31, 33, 58, 285

environmental, 45

neoclassical, xxiii, 15, 26–27, 40, 52–54, 57–58, 59, 66, 79–80, 82–83, 86–89, 94–95, 158, 267, 269 (
see also
Neoliberalism)

Ecosocialism, 54–55

Edward, Peter, 122–123, 149

Efficiency, 66, 83–86, 94, 128–129, 156–157, 160, 182, 267–268, 270, 277, 289

Ehrlich, Anne, 23

Ehrlich, Paul, 23, 33, 37, 47, 49–50, 61–62, 269

Eisenhower, Dwight, 180

Ekins, Paul, 153

Elites, 6, 8, 18, 36, 46–47, 61, 76–77, 88, 99, 109, 136, 141–142, 154–155, 174, 202, 224–225, 233, 242–243, 245–246, 279

Emissions trading scheme (ETS), 219, 224–226

Empty world, 16, 110, 147, 149, 275, 283

Enclosure, 5, 11, 43, 48, 87, 135–138, 144, 148

Energy, 11, 13, 21–24, 35, 38, 46, 59, 61, 108, 115, 126–128, 146, 154, 156, 201, 214, 224, 228, 234, 263–264, 281.
See also
Coal; Economic growth, and cheap energy; Gas; Oil

as master resource, 262, 267

energy return on investment (EROI), 268–269

Energy Information Administration (US), 234

Enlightenment.
See
Modernity

Enterprise Australia (EA), 199–200, 201

Entropy.
See
Thermodynamics, second law

Environmental Conservation Organisation (ECO), 206, 207, 217

Environmental awareness, 33–35, 38–39, 50–52, 126–128, 154, 156, 185, 188–189, 202, 205, 212–213, 220, 233–235, 246, 248, 272, 275, 278–279, 324n24

Environmental crisis, 33, 35, 62, 128, 153, 154, 160, 218, 246, 257, 271, 275, 281

Equal time.
See
Balance

Escobar, Arturo, 105, 109, 111

Evidence-based thinking, 21, 57, 59, 60, 170, 213, 219, 228, 229, 230, 232, 235–236, 259

Ewen, Stuart, 73, 75, 170, 172

Export economy, 44, 45, 46, 114, 117, 119, 136, 139, 152, 156, 161

Externalities, negative, 45, 57, 83–85, 158

ExxonMobil, 208–209, 215, 216, 217, 316n27

Family foundations (US), 90, 192–193, 216–217, 315n95

Family planning, 34, 36–37, 50, 266.
See also
Population growth

Farmers, 5, 11–12, 18–19, 29, 42–43, 45, 46–47, 48, 50, 61, 82, 87, 99, 108, 110–111, 114, 135–137, 138, 139, 144, 146–147, 150, 157–158, 161, 240–241, 274

Farming, transition to, 18–19

Feedback mechanisms, 35, 56, 58, 265–266

Feulner, Edwin.
See
Heritage Foundation

Fifth freedom, 179.
See also
Four freedoms

Finance capital, 65, 95–96, 98, 101, 122, 195, 201, 240, 248, 251–252, 254, 289

derivatives, 86, 251, 253–254

Financial crises, 13, 73, 86, 88, 93, 99, 101, 102, 106, 116–117, 151, 181, 200, 241, 243–244, 251, 253–254, 263

Financialization, 73, 86, 96, 97, 140, 155, 173, 198, 200, 232, 239, 241, 250–253, 275, 289, 301n21

Financial Services Agreement (FSA), 253

Fisher, Anthony, 89, 192, 195–197, 199, 201

Fisher, Joseph, 45

Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth, 183