{"id":6268,"date":"2012-09-10T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:34:16","slug":"from-truthdig-com-growth-is-the-problem-chris-hedges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/10\/from-truthdig-com-growth-is-the-problem-chris-hedges\/","title":{"rendered":"(from Truthdig.com)  &#8216;Growth Is the Problem&#8217;  &#8212;Chris Hedges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cOur solution is our problem,\u201d Richard Heinberg, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Growth-Adapting-Economic-Reality\/dp\/0865716951\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347080061&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=%22The+End+of+Growth%3A+Adapting+to+Our+New+Economic+Reality%2C%22\">\u201cThe End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality,\u201d<\/a> told me when I reached him by phone in California. \u201cIts name is growth. But growth has become uneconomic. We are worse off because of growth. To achieve growth now means mounting debt, more pollution, an accelerated loss of biodiversity and the continued destabilization of the climate. But we are addicted to growth. If there is no growth there are insufficient tax revenues and jobs. If there is no growth existing debt levels become unsustainable. The elites see the current economic crisis as a temporary impediment. They are desperately trying to fix it. But this crisis signals an irreversible change for civilization itself. We cannot prevent it. We can only decide whether we will adapt to it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE ARTICLE CLICK ON THE IMAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/growth_is_the_problem_20120910\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6269\" title=\"Mr-fish-CheRogers-320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mr-fish-CheRogers-320-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mr-fish-CheRogers-320-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Mr-fish-CheRogers-320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ THE CURRENT ZEPHYR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO READ ALL ZBLOG POSTS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOur solution is our problem,\u201d Richard Heinberg, the author of \u201cThe End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality,\u201d told me when I reached him by phone in California. \u201cIts name is growth. But growth has become uneconomic. We are worse off because of growth. To achieve growth now means mounting debt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}