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We need to value natural capital | Greenbiz
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global economy is structured around growth — the idea that firms, industries and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whether it is needed.
Jason Hickel • Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
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In most Western Economic Systems, we tend to take for granted that natural resources can be used for human benefit with little regard for their well-being and longevity. These beliefs are deeply ingrained in our beliefs and legal systems.
Matt Orsagh from Degrowth is the Answer • What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights?
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We need exponentially less of the degenerative forms of capitalism and exponentially more of the increasingly resilient and regenerative forms.
John Elkington • Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
We need to talk about the economy and its coexisting blindfolded and ignorant structures that seem to have been the prevailing system for democratic societies over the last 100 years. We need to talk about how we look at systemic structures, why they matter and how they work. Few are truly paying attention to how the whole is functioning together, ... See more
Jenny Grettve • economicspaces
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We are currently trapped in the illusion of growth. The belief that all businesses should grow indefinitely. To expand their business, profits, and workforce… Everything in nature is circular, so there’s nothing natural about this growth craze.
Angelos Arnis • Designing for the last earth
People need to understand that all degrowth really is, is a switch in the goal of the economic system. We need to change the goal of the system from the accumulation of capital to the flourishing of all people, not just people in the global north, also people in the global south, and the flourishing of all life on this planet, because our economic ... See more
Ian Tucker • Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
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The overwhelming threat of climate change has amplified the sense that global capitalism is out of control or that the best we can hope for is to avert catastrophe.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Keely Adler added
what we need to do is rethink this sense of unfettered capitalism in an age of globalization and say, no, we still have to value community, we still have to value place, and we need to have a capitalist system that allows for enough state intervention, that helps places survive and thrive.
ro khanna • Ro Khanna makes the case for digital public space
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