nd other forms of radiation. Entropy always goes from low to high naturally, releasing energy. Nature takes a very long time and lots of energy to make up resources like this. Technology enables to make more productive use of these resources but not at the level that would even sustain the level of growth we are used to. Technical progress cannot make more oil, or decrease the entropy of our ecosystem.Economists of the persuasion that technology makes up the bulk of the increased output of the times also maintain that the efficiency of the resources can be exponentially increased. That is to say we can maintain the same level of material input and continue to increase the output exponentially. This reasoning is flawed to say the least. Measuring the productivity of a resource as GNP/ output of the resource. This supports no conclusion regarding resource productivity. In fact if one resource productivity is increased, it is usually due to its substitutes productivity being decreased. The meaning of resource productivity can only be taken seriously when it allude to technology, and that argument has been shown.If not growth and development then what? We have shown that the ecosystem cannot even sustain the amount metabolic throughput flow we use now! Herman Daly and colleagues have been proponents of development without growth. This is almost heresy to so called progressives with their growthmania tendencies. In stead what has been put forth is a steady-State model for economic and ecological compatibility.The three way that are possible are economic imperialism, ecological reductionism, and the steady-state approach. Economic imperialism involves expanding the economy to include the whole of the ecology. Putting ecological issues in terms of economics. All energy and matter that flows in and out of the system in terms of costs. Then regulating them through correct pricing. By calculating the true cost to the environment and even sociolo...
