Addiction to growth hasn't worked. The rich just get richer, while the rest of us get poorer. Not to mention the abject poverty of the majority of the world's people, living outside the golden net of Western power. We've paved over the best farm lands, and we're still not happy.

Tim Jackson says we can remove the cancer of growth, and still survive - with a new idea of what prosperity really is. He's one of the brightest of the new economists, and a top level advisor to the British government. Jackson's thick report to the UK, full of econo-talk, has been boiled down into a new book for the rest of us, called "Prosperity Without Growth" We're lucky to get him on the phone, for an interview, for Radio Ecoshock (ecoshock.org)