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- Sep 2023
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journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
- Aug 2023
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
- for: degrowth, polycrisis, simplification
- title: Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
- author: Mike Joy
- date: Aug. 15, 2023
- source: https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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if you're very poor then you're living in some kind of Wilderness Area you're going to destroy the environment in order to survive let me take for 00:08:05 example Gumby Street National Park in 1960 it was part of the Great Forest built by the late 1980s was a tiny Islander forest and all the hills around were bare more people living there in 00:08:19 the land could support two poor to buy food elsewhere struggling to survive cutting down the trees to make money from charcoal or Timber or to make more land grow more food and that's when it 00:08:33 hit me if we don't help these people these local communities find ways of living without destroying the environment we can't save chimpanzees forests or anything else so we need to 00:08:46 alleviate poverty
- for: inequality, poverty, W2W, Jane Goodall, socio-ecological system, climate justice, emptiness - example, entanglement - inequality and climate crisis
- key insight
- if you're very poor and you're living in some kind of Wilderness Area
- you're going to destroy the environment in order to survive
- example: Gumby Street National Park
- in 1960 it was part of the Great Forest
- but by the late 1980s was a tiny Islander forest and all the hills around were bare
- more people living there than the land could support
- too poor to buy food elsewhere
- struggling to survive
- cutting down the trees to make money from charcoal or Timber
- or to make more land grow more food and
- that's when it hit me
- if we don't help these people these local communities find ways of living without destroying the environment
- we can't save chimpanzees forests or anything else so we need to alleviate poverty
- if you're very poor and you're living in some kind of Wilderness Area
- comment
- This is why the inequality crisis is entangled with the climate crisis
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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This increasing energy extraction could then, contra Malthus, support an exponentially growing population.
- for: Malthus - energy extraction, overshoot,
- paraphrase
- increasing energy extraction via cultural evolution of new energy saving and extraction technologies allows a population to continue growing exponentially instead of crashing due to limits of energy extraction growth.
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- Jul 2023
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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My overall objective in this paper is to
- My overall objective in this paper is to
- unite the sciences of ecology and evolution
- with the spiritual practice of Zen
- in order to inspire actions to address the extinction crisis that we are currently facing.
- I do this by addressing the following three points:
- Zen and science are both based upon empirical observations of the world.
- Zen and science both tell us that there is no separation between humans and the world around us.
- Ecology and evolution provide the scientific background needed to address the biodiversity crisis;
- Zen provides the deeper knowing that will motivate our action to address this problem
- My overall objective in this paper is to
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