Good morning. Time for another frankly. I would like to do more Franklies. I have both a fiduciary and an anxious feeling about these Franklies because as world events

gravitate towards the great simplification

telling the truth will undoubtedly be risky.

I prefer to be a Monday morning internet quarterback where I can watch people's speeches and the news and just reflect and talk to my friends.

But simultaneous with that, I want to help society,

or at least I intend to help society with both awareness and suggestions for responses.

So I feel compelled to say uncomfortable things.

And I will continue to do so, especially with timely things in the news.

This week I watched an important debate between Jason Hickle talking about degrowth and

Sam Fankhouser talking about green growth, moderated by Kate Rayworth with some fantastic

visual aids.

I think what wasn't discussed in this debate is a third concept, a third scenario, and in reality a third rail,

which is the end of growth.

So not something that will be green and tech driven, not something that will voluntarily

democratically reduce production, but something that out of momentum and running out of cans to

kick, we will be faced with a sharp drop in the size of our economies.

And this is an uncomfortable thing to state.

But I think it's also a really important thing to state because it empowers individuals

and communities to maybe ignore the consensus trance of what society is telling us the future

is going to be and change their mindset, change their behaviors, change their ethos,

change their networks because I don't think society will en masse change.

So I watched this debate with interest.

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