Herman Daly: Article Analysis

Herman Daly was a professor that argued that it is not possible for limitless growth in physical production to determine an economy (Wheeler, 2014). In my opinion is that he is right because nothing is endless much less materials that are used to produce other things. There can be an exception to that if you recycle, which those materials can be used again and again to make different products that are then sometimes thrown away and return to the recycling circle of junk. Daly talks about growthmania as being kind of like a hoarder or greed. Both of those have a similar meaning in the way that that can both have something but then want to obtain more of it because “there is no such thing as enough, that cannot conceive of too much of a good thing” (Wheeler, 2014). Too much growth can eventually be costly and have a negative effect on the economy instead of a positive one. He was looking for a way to maintain “steady-state economy”, which is minimizing the population and wealth and keeping it a constant steady rate (Wheeler, 2014).
For example, the more shoes we buy then the more trees will be cut down to make the shoe boxes. If the trees were the home to some type of animal, which died when the tree was being cut down then it cannot eat the bugs that it was supposed to and now the world will have a bit more of those bugs that could be harmful to humans. , All of this because we bought a pair of shoes that we did not really need. And that is called the circle of life. Humans are part of nature too and like all other creatures in this world we have needs and instincts. Part of our instinct is to build a shelter out of whatever we can find in order to survive. Thus, cities are a part of nature which are called granite gardens (Wheeler,