Solutions are dictated by problems.
With a rat's nest of problems like a massive government debt, inequality, climate change, and mass extinction (to name a few), it seems unlikely that tinkering around the edges is going to effectively address them; fundamental, structural change is required on the system.
The feature of our system that drives all of those issues is our need for growth. The growth imperative says that the economy has to keep growing or catastrophe will occur ("a personal disaster for every American," according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce). However, we're already using 1.5 planets-worth of resources. We're drawing down the planet's natural capital, we've been doing it for decades, and yet our leadership insists we continue to grow. Growth ends. Whether or not that is your personal disaster depends on when - and how - we transition to a non-growing economy. That's what Steady State Economics is designed to address.
