Economics becomes redundant if it can rationalise an exchange that sells the future of humankind.

It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming