55: Gray Cox, Thinking for a Sustainable Planet

"How do we change our economic thinking so that we start to become people who are living in a way that's compatible with a sustainable planet?" — Gray Cox To look at the world and everywhere see strife and material consumption that our planet is unable to sustain can be demoralizing. But particularly as we stare at the prospect of likely peril, College of the Atlantic professor Gray Cox asks us to take heart and consider the simple habits of mind that are drawing us toward the brink of ecological collapse. How can we make subtle shifts in our very rationality — one person at a time — and thereby transform, and increase the odds of, continued life on earth?