I guess the takeaway from that is that there is no apparent problem with growth as long as the inputs are sustainable.
Sure, and living under water is no problem, as long as you can breathe.
And that the route to sustainability won't necessarily be easy. (Which was not claimed.)
Indeed, but it will be even more difficult if the root cause of the problem - the need for and aspiration to endless GDP growth - isn't taken out of the equation.
I know you don't claim that things will be easy, but although your analysis and news links make me very enthusiastic, I'm under the impression that you're one of those people who think we can grow ourselves out of the predicament. And maybe that's true, but there has to be a point where the current economic set-up is changed. No one ever talks about that point, even though the founders of economic thinking did.
I'm not really sure why you added renewable to the end of your statement. Renewables are all about sustainable inputs. And getting off finite energy sources.
And I'll repeat. Renewable energy is one part of a larger set of solutions we need to implement to achieve a sustainable economy.
Absolutely, but it's a much stronger solution if the economic system and everything following from it (think consumer culture, public health, wealth disparity, oligarchy) undergoes substantial changes as well.
Can we agree on that? Or do you deny that the need for endless GDP growth (which is an arbitrary human construct, like the bishops say) is at the root of all current global problems?