Cursed to live in interesting times

Brian Davey connects the fall in the growth rate, with its roots in the rising costs of energy extraction and generation, to declining resilience in the economic system. He argues that these are in turn related to a more conflict ridden geo-politics. There is an increased vulnerability to shocks which will be catastrophic unless and until there is a new conventional wisdom in society about what is wrong and what has to be done about it.

Indigenous economics

In this chapter of Credo, Brian Davey explores the reasons why, on a global level, the most committed environmental campaigners tend to be indigenous people such as tribal societies and the First Nations in Canada. He contrasts the mentalities of people that belong to places vs the mind-set of the population when places belong to people.