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- 1. Economics without Ecocide: The Case for Degrowth and the Challenge to Higher Education David O’Brien Centre September 16, 2011 [email_address]
- 2. Part One The Folly of the Growth Agenda
- 4. Growth Mania
- 5. The Great Collision, 1750-2000
- 6. Has Growth Gone Too Far? Source: Rockström et al., 2009 - Planetary boundaries being transgressed
- 8. GWP to 2100 at 2% or 3% annual growth O $ Billion Year 2011 3% 2% Source: Garver, 2010
- 9. Are We Getting What We Are Paying SO Dearly For?
- 10. Are We Happier? - No positive correlation between wealth and happiness Source: World Database of Happiness
- 13. How Could We Have Made Such an Enormous Mistake? Fundamental Mistakes Deep in European Culture
- 15. Toward an Ethical Foundation for an Ecological Political Economy Part Two Redefining and Redesigning Our Place in a Learning Universe: The Challenge to the Academy and the Opportunity of Degrowth
- 17. Re-grounding : A Universe Ever Advancing into Novelty An Evolutionary and Systems (etc.) Theory Perspective
- 19. A. Continuous Creation http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/assets/eagle_nebula.jpg&imgrefurl=http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/eagle_nebula.htm&h=645&w=650&sz=35&tbnid=CqfW_fAc387wiM:&tbnh=133&tbnw=135&hl=en&start=17&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpillars%2Bof%2Bcreation%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DG
- 24. God made man in his image and gave the world to him.
- 25. But co-evolution suggests: The Commonwealth of Life
- 27. 1. Rethinking who we are
- 30. 2. What we know about what we know
- 32. 3. What we should do and not do
- 34. Challenges and Opportunities for the Academy
- 35. What we teach and what we think What is urgently needed is a reconstruction of our curricula, and our collective understanding , in terms of the evolutionary narrative. The subjects from which we derive our norms have not systematically connected with this narrative: law, ethics, finance, economics, politics, and most theology are metaphysical orphans.
- 41. Finance for Planet Earth
- 43. Governance in a systems perspective
- 46. Liberty Leading the People Delacroix 1830
- 48. A Fundamental Transformation Degrowth as an Opportunity for a Mutually Enhancing Earth/Human Relationship
- 49. Overshoot and reduction paths From the Living Planet Report 2008, www. panda.org
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- The growth paradigm has caused a transgression of planetary boundaries - Briefly discuss Rockstrom et al.’s planetary boundaries
- The Living Planet Index, compiled by the WWF, provides an indication of the declines in the overall abundance of wild species (not number of species gone extinct). The index currently incorporates data on the abundance of 555 terrestrial species, 323 freshwater species, and 267 marine species around the world. While the index fell by some 40% between 1970 and 2000, the terrestrial index fell by about 30%, the freshwater index by about 50%, and the marine index by around 30% over the same period. 4. What factors lead to biodiversity loss? 4.1 Biodiversity is declining rapidly due to factors such as land use change, climate change, invasive species, overexploitation, and pollution. Such natural or human-induced factors - referred to as drivers - tend to interact and amplify each other. They are also linked to indirect drivers that are at the root of many changes in ecosystems. The main indirect drivers are changes in human population, economic activity, and technology, as well as socio-political and cultural factors.
- Global studies of GDP and happiness have shown that beyond a certain level of per capita wealth (which, incidentally, is approximately equal to the U.S. GDP per capita in 1946), the positive correlation between wealth and happiness deteriorates. (We must be clear that we are only illustrating uneconomic growth in the developed world. The developing world is entirely different, and growth there may still be of benefit. The U.S., however, is past the point of benefit.) As Manfred Max-Neef has written, there is more than one kind of poverty we face. There is a poverty for each basic human need: a poverty of food, a poverty of water, a poverty of shelter, a poverty of love, a poverty for every thing we need in life. While monetary poverty is a grave tragedy that must continue to be addressed both abroad and at home, so are the poverties of love, community, and self-esteem, for which more money may not be the answer. The answer is not to pursue growth for growth’s sake. If the past thirty years provide any indication, neither wealth nor satisfaction will benefit from that. What we should do instead is reorient our development toward a more diverse portfolio of aims, to meet all of our basic human needs, not just our needs for subsistence and “stuff.” http://blog.nickenge.org/tag/gdp/
- GPI incorporates Economic, Social and Environmental Wellbeing indicators For the last thirty years in the United States, we’ve experienced what Herman Daly calls uneconomic growth. Uneconomic growth occurs when the marginal costs of growth meet (or exceed) the benefits of growth. As anyone who has ever taken economics knows, when the marginal costs exceed the marginal benefits, we are expected to stop, and do something else. Instead, we’ve irrationally clung to the belief that all GDP is good. Measuring by the GPI, the growing economy isn’t good for itself, let alone good for us, and of course, that is what really matters. Who is this economy supposed to be for? That’s right: you and me! How has GDP growth benefited us? We could talk about our standard of living: how we have more cars, more channels, more choices. But let’s cut right to the chase. What do you and I want most? To succeed in the famed “pursuit of happiness.” How much has GDP helped us in this? The short answer is simply: it hasn’t. http://blog.nickenge.org/tag/gdp/
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- The limits of one‘s subjectivity provide the horizon of choice. As per last comment, economics depends on reducing that horizon. The rationality produced is not legitmate, it is simply conveniently self-reproducing. This instantiates itself as a moral moment, because the reproducibility of this form is capable of being related to by all. The very work that it is obviating however, is the one that would increase the capacity of the individual to make choices beyond this horizon. Because of the economic empirical perceived benefit of a reduced horizon, all such other regarding must be considered „useless“.
- Why?
- How does the overarching theme of an „evolutionary narrative“ trump all other approaches to the normative or underlying ethical foundation. Why is an „evolutionary narrative“ trump Nullification and absorption within God's Infinite Light ( Hassidic schools of Judaism ) Deep intrinsic connection to the world ( Satori in Mahayana Buddhism , Te in Taoism ) Union with God ( Henosis in Neoplatonism and Theosis in Eastern and Western Christianity , Brahma-Prapti or Brahma-Nirvana in Hinduism ) Innate Knowledge ( Irfan and Sufism in Islam ) Experience of one's true blissful nature ( Samadhi Svarupa-Avirbhava in Hinduism and Buddhism) Seeing the Light, or "that of God", in everyone ( Quakerism )