Economic Strategies for Sustainability

The problematic:
How can the economy be harnessed to serve sustainability?

What makes this question so ironic is that the growth in the physical scale of the economy under the prevailing regime of economic globalization has depleted resources, destroyed ecosystems, overwhelmed natural waste disposal sinks, waged war on subsistence cultures, and produced shocking maldistribution of wealth and income. How, then, can the economy be turned around to reinforce sustainable development rather than to destroy ecosystems, resource endowments, and indigenous cultures?

This alchemy must be resolved to promote sustainability

Alchemy = "a process by which paradoxical results are achieved or incompatible elements combined."
Concise Oxford Dictionary

ESS pivots with USA

The USA, the single most powerful economy in history, must be given foremost consideration. With only 4.5% of the world's people, the USA consumes about 25% of global resources and produces the same proportion of greenhouse gases. The USA dominates the Bretton Woods institutions -- the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization -- which shape the global economy through what is known as The Washington Consensus.

ESS challenges economic globalization but is not against globalization per se

The global economy, a robust engine of change, must generate sustainable development rather than amplify entropy. The USA dominates the Bretton Woods institutions--the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization--which shape the global economy. Recall the film, Banking on Disaster.

What do sustainers need to know about economics

The purpose of this essay is to provide sustainers an overview of how economics might appropriately relate to sustainability. But don't be intimidated.

So, how do we get to ESS?

Will explain. Stay tuned