Brian Czech warns ecologists against drinking the “sustainable growth Koolaid”

Steady State The Daly News “Real Dichotomies Are Not Made ‘False’ by Soft Science or Political Pandering”

What’s really valuable here is the clarification of what is cultural construction (‘there does not have to be a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection’) and what is scientific reality (‘there is actually an empirically-demonstrable conflict between economic growth and environmental protection’). It is definitely weird when ecologists shy away from reporting what we know just because that news will not please the public.