REFERENCES AND QUOTES Philosophy 2021 The problem - References and quotes THE EMPATHIC CIVILIZATION: THE RACE TO GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN A WORLD IN CRISIS Entropy bill for industrial revolution 478 Examples of bad things happening on the planet. 481 “If every human life, the species as a whole, and all other life-forms are entwined with one another and with the geochemistry of the planet in a rich and complex choreography that sustain life itself, then we are all dependent on and responsible for the health of the whole organism.” 598, 599 I TURNING POINT: THE END OF EXPONENTIAL GROWTH? Running out of limited resources 1191 I DECOUPLING DEBUNKED – EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENTS AGAINST GREEN GROWTH AS A SOLE STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY materials 20 energy 21 water 23 greenhouse gases 26 NPP 28 Biodiversity 30 I PROSPERITY WITHOUT GROWTHMeaning of prosperity. Prosperity is not growth. 3 reason against growth 1. creates inequality, trickled to the few, inequality causes problems 2. we are not happier 3. is impossible on a finite planet 41 better follow intrinsic valuesdifferent visions of prosperity, material and social aspects of prosperity 81 not improving the human lot 91 social but destructive power of things 99 consequences of economic chaos in Greece and Russia but different response in Cuba, Iceland, Japan and Argentina. Diminishing return of growth and well-being (life expectancy, health, education) in poorer countries 107 the idea of current economic systems locks us into growth. In a growth-based economy growth is important 109 rising emission, figure 5.2 116 material footprint rising, figure 5.4 rising resource extraction rising, figure 5.5 118 companies, creditors, investors, workers and governments dependent on growth 130 paying for social distinction 135 anxiety from self-reinforcing process of consumers and companies, thrive or die, underpin growth 137 economic relies on expansion means consume and consume more 140 Boris Johnson and George Bush wants us to consume. Social recession in Western society 142 Mills alternative vision and materialist pursuits make us feel bad 145 flourishing within limits a guiding principle and key criterion for success 177 demand, employment and labour productivity, the growth goal poses a growth dilemma for politicians 190 impossibility theorems of ‘post-growth’ economics dissolve, “post-growth”macroeconomics is possible. Economics is a cultural construct 196 institutional schizophrenia, protect jobs and ensure stability traps governments in growth 209 we create and recreate the world, quest for immortality 219 hospice manager, community worker, Augustinian sister, money and the response of society to fear of death, sacred canopy – framework within which to make sense of existence, for example religion that shelters from despair, the void. Consumerism or working society as a sacred canopy is not working (in providing a supeduper fantastic place for all) but the belief in it shows why people react when it gets threaten by alternatives, it threatens social meaning 221 I EN VÄRLD UTAN BRÖD – OM FRAMTIDENS LIVSMEDELSFÖRSÖRJNING prices on food 19 diminishing return on 29 aggrevating effect on agriculture of climate change 31 limit to agriculture growth, 11 % 59 limit to agriculture growth, soil is 150 mm, 1 mm = 100 years. 60 erosion 61 shortage of water 89 I EATING FOSSIL FUELS - RESILIENCE oil in food I DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS: SEVEN WAYS TO THINK LIKE A 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMIST Preanalytic vision, worldview, paradigm, frame , Korzybski, “map is not territory” George Box “All models are wrong, but some are useful” 24 Meadows on growth as the stupidest purpose See DANA (DONELLA) MEADOWS LECTURE: SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS 40 Holoscens benelovent conditions 50 000 years more if we don’t continue exceeding limits. Examples of exceeding limits 46 Traditional knowledge of well-being 51 power 79 traditional knowledge 100 success to the successful, Sugarscape 123 Rostows 5 stages of growth 203 but how to we land the plane of progress? 205 finance addiction to growth, search for gain 223 political addiction, search for public revenue, employment and power 227 socially addicted, search for status, identity, belonging and meaning 230 I ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS – PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS importance of preanalytic vision 23 Belief we can transcend our material world 42 entropy and economy 68, 69, 70 Georgescu-Roegen vs Ayres on possibility of steady state. 84 running out of cheap oil is over and less fossil fuel means less food, running out of minerals including topsoil 116 running out of water 117 running out or renewables 118 running out of sinks, e.g CO2 119 sinks seems to be a more pressing problem 122 neoclassical economy preanalytical vision doesn’t see nature as scarce 272 just desert 442 power 443 I ENERGY AND ECONOMIC MYTHS “one particular idea, the mechanistic epistemology” 347 man above the law 349 Economy of any life process is governed by Entropy law not mechanics 352 immaterial flux of the enjoyment of life. all living organism strive to evade entropic degradation by sucking low entropy and expelling high entropy. Entropy of entire system is increasing. 353 addiction to exosomatic instruments. 369 economists and the wealthy and powerful 377 I ON THE CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY AND DECOUPLING: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH Schrödinger, Prigogine, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, self-organization, open systems gather inputs from their environment and dispose wastes into it, socio-ecological systems, dissipative structures 147 dissipative system, Georgescu-Roegen 148 empty to full world, the great linearization and liquidation of ecological funds 149 figure 7 150 gap between density and flows of technosphere and biosphere 153 entropic economic process and industrial revolution as a unique event of plundering non-renewable fossil energy, a linearization of a previously circular process 154 I ARBETSSAMHÄLLET – HUR ARBETET ÖVERLEVDE TEKNOLOGIN power is shown by nonconformity 42 one-dimensional thinking and relative deprivation 50 relative deprivation (imagination) as a threat to power and realistic the friend of power, difference between desired and desirable, Russel on Mills 51 one-dimensional acceptance of the existing worse and rejecting of the possible better 81 some reproduces society more than others, the powerful See autopoietic systems, Maturana and Varela described in THE DYNAMICS OF SELF-RENEWAL: A SYSTEMS-THINKNING TO UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZAITIONAL CHALLENGES IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS 88 playing business 89 Paul Mazur, Lehman Brothers: "We must shift America from a needs, to a desires culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things even before the old had been entirely consumed. We must shape a new mentality in America. Man's desires must overshadow his needs." 100 the overwhelming wholeness 127 capital and power and how the anal fixation of things alienates us from being 120 any discussion of need will challenge existing power structures 139 the wastefulness is an effect of power 140 power prevents a real discussion about the value of work, most improductve work earns the most, New Economic Foundation https://neweconomics.org/2009/12/a-bit-rich 143 Waste of material and human beings 145 waste of food 146 waste of technics and irrational production 147 feed all of Europe with food waste from USA 153 power as trying to control existential fear 167 Rousseau and power born in property 171 I MYTEN OM MASKINEN: ESSÄER OM MAKT; MODERNITET OCH MILJÖ "Vi måste reflektera över hur säregena och frörtusägbara föreställningar om världens beskaffenhet kan få investeringar i specifika materialla infrastrukturer att framstå som teknologier som är oumbärliga för männniskors överlevnad” The society is a bigger version of ourselves and acknowledging its possible breakdown would be recognizing our mortality. We need to reflect on our cultural peculiar ideas 22 commodity fetishism 23 interest is believing in magic, it is makebelief See THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER on interest 24 idea of money 26 our sustainability problem is cultural, how we think and organize 27 USA use 25 % of energy while 20% in the world don’t get enough energy for metabolism 39 industrialization, triangle and technics 44 technic hiding uneven trade, e.g trains 45 zerosum game of development, development in one part means underdevelopment of another “Det vore kanske naivt att tro att folkflertalet I de rika länderna av ren sanningstörst och solidaritet med de avlägsna och anonyma massorna i Syd skulle välja en verklighetstolkning som rimligen torde försätta dem I en djup moralisk konfliktsituation.” 53 exploiting trait of world trade 58 machine fetishism rests on money fetishism 60 never have there been more poor and undernourished people than now 63 poverty and technical development are two sides of the same coin 164 dualism created dichotomies like the fissures between man and nature, spirit and matter, mind and body and it formed the idea of one ruling of the other 166 concepts of national economy is colonizing ecology 191 I THINKING IN SYSTEMS – A PRIMER system trap of addiction 2 system trap of addiction 80 reinforcing feedback loop leads to exponential growth or to runaway collapse 96 success to the successful trap/the competitive exclusion principle 127 success to the successful trap make the rich richer and the poor poorer 128 system trap of addiction 131, 132, 133, 134 “If you define the goal of a society as GNP, that society will do its best to produce GNP. It will not produce welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency unless you define a goal and regularly measure and report the state of welfare, equity, justice, or efficiency. The world would be a different place if instead of competing to have the highest per capita GNP, nations competed to have the highest per capita stocks of wealth with the lowest throughput, or the lowest infant mortality, or the greatest political freedom, or the cleanest environment, or the smallest gap between the rich and the poor.” 140 Losing control, paradigm 160, 161 I SUSTAINABILITY ECONOMICS: WHERE DO WE STAND? economic growth demands more and more material. addiction to growth 290 “As pointed out long ago by Georgescu–Roegen, this model economy is an immaterial perpetual motion machine, in violation of both of the laws of thermodynamics (GeorgescuRoegen, 1971).”. need for a new energy-economic paradigm 292 I A BLUEPRINT FOR SURVIVAL governments hooked on growth 5, 6 I WHY WE CONSUME: NEURAL DESIGN AND SUSTAINABILITY addiction I THE ENTROPY LAW AND THE ECONOMIC PROCESS IN RETROSPECT economic growth cannot solve poverty 12 I COLONIALISM IN THE ANTROPOCENE: THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF THE MONEY-ENERGY-TECHNOLOGY COMPLEX “Neoclassical economic theory is an ideology originally developed in colonial Britain to justify and morally neutralize the exploitation of its extractive periphery. In its modern, neoliberal guise, it has championed ‘globalization’ as a modern euphemism for imperialism.” 12 no fundamental rethinking within economics, inertia of conducting business as usual and implacable interests of the powerful 16 neoclassical economics insulated from biophysical and moral reality, conceptual myopia of mainstream economics 19 I DANA (DONELLA) MEADOWS LECTURE: SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS Goal of national economy is growth. System goes into conniption if it doesn’t get growth. 15:00 PART 1 “A lot of successful to the successful loops which are accumulating more power and money in some hands than in others which are weakening feedbacks…” 26.30 PART 2“Remember goals, are the most important defining characteristic of a systems, more so than interconnections, more so than elements. A meaningful, moral, satisfying goal – with a sense of enough. Growth as a goal is asking for unsustainability on a finite planet. There is no way. There’s got to be an enoughness and the goal has to be something to do with real human fulfillment not just getting more” 29:35 PART 2 real human fulfillment 30:03 PART 2 cultural commitment to protect resource base 1:55 PART 3 Progenitor of systems is mindset/worldviews/paradigms! 7.22 PART 3 we got to have an enough “If you get how we are interrelated with the environment and that all of this throughputs that run our lives come from the environment, go back to the environment and that we cannot be out of balance then you start inventing new functions and purposes. The first thing that you see is that growth is one of the stupidest purposes ever invented by any culture! We got to have an enough!” 07.38 PART 3 “The question of growth. If you just listen around you to the mindset, the current culture, telling you how growth is going to solve a problem. If you just, every time you here that start saying, ‘growth of what?, and why?, and for whom?, and who pays the cost?, and how long can it last?, and what’s the cost to the planet? and how much is enough? Just do that! You are going to screw up mindsets. People are going to hate it. But that what’s needed, is to start rethinking at this level, even if you don’t know the answers to those questions, and hardly anybody does because we don’t ask them, but you’ve got to admit those are good questions: growth of what, for whom, at what cost, paid by whom? for how long? and how will that fit within the capacity of the planet to support it, and when will we get there?, when will we have enough?, where are we going anyway? Those are mindset upsetting questions, paradigm upsetting questions” 9:22 PART 3 I BEYOND GROWTH growth cannot be a solution on poverty and development 196 I THE SCIENCE OF FLOW SAYS EXTREME INEQUALITY CAUSES ECONOMIC COLLAPSE “So, while the impacts of globalization and technology are profound, the real explanation for inequality lies primarily with an economic belief that, intentionally or not, serves to concentrate wealth at the top by extracting it from everywhere else. This belief system is called variously neoliberalism, Reaganomics, the Chicago School, and trickle-down economics. It is easily recognized by its signature ideas: deregulation; privatization; cut taxes on the rich; roll back environmental protections; eliminate unions; and impose austerity on the public. The idea was that liberating market forces would cause a rising tide that lifted all boats, but the only boat that actually rose was that of the .01%. Meanwhile, instability has grown.” The problem World view