Some still defend the sustainability of growth, though. Since you have been on the list for a long time and a pulitzered journalist, I would assume that you know about the connections and synergetic effects of various environmental issues. For me the big issue is how to make things clear to the common and the elite publics, not the list. Don Roper asked us, some time ago, to stop arguing about the necessity of action, but focus on the working out of methods. That question was answered and now you raise it again.
Growth is the pivotal mechanism of depletion, toxification and ultimate suicide.
We should dela with the illness in the first place, whilst spending some time on remedies for its symptoms. We can see and read the results of economic growth each day. We can calculate how long it takes the logging companies to clear-cut the State of Washington and British Columbia. The clear-cutting is neither economic nor ecological. The loggers, not the shareholders and CEOs, will find themselves without work in a destroyed ecosystem.