We rejoin Herman Daly in the late 1970s - a tumultuous time for our renegade economist. His so-called "radical" critiques of endless growth - and his insistence that the economy must operate within the Earth’s limits - left him isolated in his field and at odds with colleagues. Yet, from this difficult period emerged a new vision of economics.| resilience
Instead of seeing the Earth as an inventory of resources – as government policymakers and corporations tend to do – people can begin to see the challenge as how to take care of “flows, networks, and relationships” – the dynamic forces that drive living planetary systems.| resilience
We stand at a turning point. The tools for impact measurement exist and knowledge continues to grow. But the decisive step is cultural: Are we ready to take impact seriously - not just as a metric but as the goal of our actions?| resilience
With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.| resilience
Tariffs on copper imported into the United States will not result in self-sufficiency for the country anytime soon, if ever.| resilience
Although the movement's actions are based on local struggles, it is part of a broader post-capitalist and post-development struggle. The movement aims to abolish the patriarchal, colonial, racist, and extractivist growth regime while building a new world here and now.| resilience
