tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6592239884075411049..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: The Anthropocene EquationThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11718596796077889082017-04-13T08:27:49.941-07:002017-04-13T08:27:49.941-07:00Thanks AniO. What Kate Raworth proposes appears to...Thanks AniO. What Kate Raworth proposes appears to be a variation on the "steady state" economic models, something I've been championing for quite a while. The steady state model is addressed in books such as Herman Daly's, "Beyond Growth," or Thomas Prugh's anthology of essays, "Natural Capital and Human Economic Survival," among others.<br /><br />The underlying principles hold that the economy can never be permitted to expand beyond the environment, our planet's ecological carrying capacity (it's nearly double today); population must be stabilized and then, through reproductive technologies, births matched to deaths; and, in an economy finally shrunk safely within the limits of the environment (the survivable capacity), growth in production, consumption and waste must be static with growth afterward focused on knowledge (how to do everything better) and quality of life.<br /><br />I don't mention these ideas much any longer because I think they represent a level of enlightenment that's simply beyond us as communities, as nations and as a global civilization. That sounds cynical because it is yet if these principles, so obvious and sensible, cannot be grasped even by our Green Party leadership in Canada, they won't have a chance of getting off the ground elsewhere - the U.S., China, India in particular.<br />The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-57858063208554942572017-04-13T06:00:24.204-07:002017-04-13T06:00:24.204-07:00Here is a hopeful idea: https://www.theguardian.c...Here is a hopeful idea: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/doughnut-growth-economics-book-economic-model?CMP=Share_iOSApp_OtherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-34615038380089586822017-04-11T07:58:05.217-07:002017-04-11T07:58:05.217-07:00The economy runs on energy. Govt wants to grow the...The economy runs on energy. Govt wants to grow the economy. The economy is now mainly powered by fossil fuels. BC has BC Hydro, which produces about 11,000 megawatts of clean, renewable hydro energy.Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-15473531314596536452017-04-10T21:14:29.132-07:002017-04-10T21:14:29.132-07:00The fate of our species will probably resemble its...The fate of our species will probably resemble its beginning. As Einstein postulated, WWIV will be fought with stones. Tobynoreply@blogger.com