Juneau, Alaska - April 13, 2007 - Brian Czech will present Good Growing Gone Bad: Uneconomic Growth, Environmental Protection, and National Security in the UAS Egan Lecture Hall on Mon., April 16 at 7 pm. The Lecture is free and open to the public. Czech is President of the Center for the Advancement of a Steady State Economy and author of Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All. CASSE’s basic assumption is that economic growth has become a primary threat to our national security, the environment, and future generations. CASSE proposes the establishment of a steady state economy with stabilized population and per capita consumption.
Contacts:
UAS Assistant Professor of Biology David Tallmon
University of Alaska Southeast
(907) 96-6330
David.Talmon@uas.alaska.edu
Kevin Myers
University of Alaska Southeast
(907) 796-6530
Kevin.Myers@uas.alaska.edu
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