Ecological economics is more important today than ever before

Society has shifted from an empty world where human populations and consumption levels were too small to have significant impacts on vital ecosystem functions, to a full world where the goal of economic growth leads to massive transfers of wealth to the few at the top, while it undermines the wellbeing of society and the rest of nature. 

Thus, economic growth has become “uneconomic growth”, where the social and environmental costs outweigh the benefits of more fossil fueled economic production. 

We need a sustainability transition that recognizes global inequity and our planet's finite limits.