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Brent Blackwelder

Brent Blackwelder, a Ph.D., is president Emeritus of Friends of the Earth U.S., a national environmental organization dedicated to preserving the health and diversity of the planet for future generations.

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Time to Stop Worshipping Economic Growth

To remain within the nine planetary boundaries, nations must shed the fetish of economic growth and transition to a true-cost, steady state economy.

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