Summary: <div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><img style="margin: 10px; float: left;" src="https://localbites.podbean.com/mf/web/23g32n/heinberg-thumb.jpg" alt="Richard Heinberg" width="200" height="210">Countries around the world are fixated on growing their economies - but is growth doing more harm than good? In this episode, Richard Heinberg discusses the history behind how GDP growth came to be used as a measure of success, why GDP can't continue growing indefinitely, and why it's time to transition to a better metric - one that better reflects human and ecological well-being.<br><br><br></span></div><br> <div align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><strong>Related links:</strong><br>- On our blog: <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/life-in-a-degrowth-economy/" target="_blank">'Life in a degrowth economy, and why you might actually enjoy it'</a><br>- On our blog: <a href="https://www.localfutures.org/growth-degrowth-brief-history/" target="_blank">'From growth to degrowth: a brief history'</a><br>- <a href="http://www.postcarbon.org/our-people/richard-heinberg/" target="_blank">Richard's articles on the Post Carbon Institute website</a><br>- <a href="http://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/richard-heinberg/">Richard's articles on Resilience.org</a><br>- <a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2010/11/01/capitalism-and-the-curse-of-energy-efficiency/" target="_blank">Much more detail about the Jevons Paradox</a><br>- <a href="https://www.clubofrome.org/report/the-limits-to-growth/" target="_blank">A PDF version of <em>Limits to Growth</em></a><br><br><strong>Music used</strong>:<br>Chris Zabriskie: "<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/2014010103336111/Chris_Zabriskie_-_Cylinders_-_03_-_Cylinder_Three">Cylinder Three</a>", "<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear/04_-_Is_That_You_or_Are_You_You">Is That You or Are You You?</a>", "<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie/Reappear/02_-_Readers_Do_You_Read">Readers! Do You Read</a>" (CC BY 4.0); Kevin Macleod: "<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Calming/Windswept">Windswept</a>" (CC BY 3.0); Tri-Tachyon: "<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/The_Warbird_EP/Edge_of_the_Wastelands">Edge of the Wastelands</a>" and Circus Marcus: "<a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/CIRCUSMARCUS/Divers_classiques/Beethoven_-_Bagatelle_op119_n9">Beethoven - Bagatelle op.119 nº9</a>" (CC BY-NC 4.0)</span></div>
