Moving from Unsustainability to Sustainability
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6 min readApr 24, 2021
A Discussion of “The Historical Production (and Consumption) of Unsustainability”
My last couple of stories have examined the unsustainability of our diet,
…and an escape from the unsustainability of our agricultural practices.
Today, I want to examine unsustainability itself. I turn to an article published in The Hedgehog Review, an interdisciplinary academic journal focused on contemporary culture.
I must confess it is strange as an economist to read an article with no equations or statistics!
But the idea of sustainability is key, not only in the issues around diet and agriculture as covered above but also in many of my students’ questions:
- How much debt can the US government add?
