Don't fix the economy. Change it

An opinion piece by Peter G. Brown of McGill and environmental consultant Geoffrey Garver: "Sticking with the economic model that is driving us toward ecological catastrophe will eventually kill us... A more essential budget also deserves urgent attention, and the two are not mutually exclusive. The ecological budget – on which all life, and consequently the human economy, depends – is already in dramatic deficit, and balancing it should be a high priority for nations around the world, even as the financial meltdown seizes headlines."