Are we growing an economy or a cancer?

The growth model needs treatment before it kills us.

Jakarta, Indonesia where twenty-six percent of the urban population lives in slums and only thirty-five percent have access to potable water. By Jonathan McIntosh (Own work) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Ecological philosopher Edward Abbey once declared “growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” He was referring to the ever-diminishing wild places of his beloved Arizona, replaced by sprawling subdivisions that housed a ballooning population of retirees, alongside massive mining and oil…