Nothing better illustrates the utter mindboggling craziness of neoclassical economics, than its Nobel laureate in environmental economics.

The mess we’re in was not only foreseeable; it was foreseen. In 1972 a landmark paper was published: The Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972), hereafter simply called Limits. It’s been called “the most influential science paper of the last 50 years”.