The beginning of a plan to avoid social, economic and environmental collapse

August 23rd, 2011 by George Monbiot

How much of this is real? How much of the economic growth of the past 60 years? Of the wealth and comfort, the salaries and pensions which older people accept as normal, even necessary? How much of it is an illusion, created by levels of borrowing – financial and ecological – which cannot be sustained? […]