Ecological constraints will soon bring economic growth to an abrupt end. Chapter 1 examines how the discourses of recent educational reform movements ignore the reality of ecological limits and are dominated by concerns of national and individual economic expansion that are impossible to sustain. Chapters 2 and 3 outline the philosophical history…

The second of a series of annual reports designed to provide a global assessment of progress toward a sustainable society, this publication monitors changes in the global resource base (land, water, energy, and biological support systems), focusing particularly on how these changes affect the economy. Included in the report are news on innovative…

The first of a series of annual reports for policy makers, this publication focuses on evaluating changes in the interplay between the world's changing resource base and the economic system. Following an overview, content is divided into 10 additional chapters covering population stabilization, the world's dependence on oil, soil conservation,…