Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If Christmas is (alas) a time for a materialist blowout, January is often a time for rueful reflection. Should ...

In 1973 The Club of Rome published a report pointing out that continuous exponential growth in population, industrialisation and resource consumption is unsustainable on a planet of finite resources.

Just when you caught your breath, a new era is emerging—one that transcends the familiar bounds of exponential growth to venture into the breathless territories of super-exponential acceleration. This ...