Post Carbon Executive Director Asher Miller was quoted in this article by Chuck Collins on the need for jobs and the ecological limits to growth.

From the article:

I call Asher Miller at the Post Carbon Institute. “Yep, there is a serious communications issue,” he says. In 2008, Miller worked on a presidential political campaign that had a serious internal discussion about climate change. The science experts and the political people debated whether the candidate should use words like “sacrifice” or “conserve.” They concluded they could talk about “efficiency,” because conservation signaled to people they were going to have to live with less.

“Remember the last major politician who tried to have an honest political discussion about the limits of our energy consumption?” Miller asks.

I flash back to being eighteen years old in 1978, and taking a Greyhound bus home from Boston to Detroit. On the rear of the bus was a big sign: “Thanks for taking the bus and saving energy,” signed Jimmy Carter…

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