daniel dahm - the intrinsic tie between economy and ecology - colloqui di martina franca 2014
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Colloqui di Martina Franca 2014 "Quale Economia per quale Benessere" - Basic terms and principles of sustainability in its transdisciplinary dimensions.TRANSCRIPT
“Quale Economia,per quale Benessere”
22/24 maggio 2014
J. Daniel Dahm The intrinsic tie between economy and ecology. Basic terms and principles of sustainability in its transdisciplinary dimensions.
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Our ideas are changing the world....
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Privates vs. Commons
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„I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to life“
Albert Schweitzer
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Commons #1
As Commons we understand first the entirety of all local, regional and global „natural resources“. Examples are the ecological diversity including the biological and genetical multiplicity, the fertility of the soils and vegetation, the plentifulness of flora and fauna of the oceans, rivers and lakes, the stability and resilience of the global climate and ecosystem, the raw materials and the water resources. They serve all (present and future) humans and the animate world as base of life and so they are common goods.
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Commons #2
Secondly the definition includes analogously also the cultural and social fundamentals of humankind in its varying local, regional and global shapes, the cultural and social diversity. That includes knowledge, information and education, tradition and values, health and participation, legal security and freedom. They are created by the mutually shared exchange of all (past, present and future) humans and they serve as base of culture, politics, society and economy for everyone, and so they are common goods.
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Humans co-create their living conditions
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Global overshoot and externalisation: The creeping cancerous privatisation of the commons
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Global Overshoot: Crossing natural boundaries Material consumption and wasting resources destroying the global biocapacity
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Externalisation leads to
exhaustion of the global biological capacity
= Depletion of the ecological resilience, extermination of the
diversity of life, loss of the given fertility, destruction of the
commons.
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Ecological creditor and debtor countries Biocapacity & ecological footprint
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Biocapacity & ecological footprint Global ecological creditor and debtor countries
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All humans are equal, but some are more equal than others. (compare G. Orwell, 1945, Animal Farm)
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Growth engine externalisation
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Economic demand exceeds the ecological offer
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Externalisation and economy Annual environmental cost and market risks
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Externalisation Originators
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Peak-Everything
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End of the pipe
g.o. x p.e. = p.l.c. x p.c.
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End of the pipe
global overshoot x peak everything = peak living conditions x peak consumerism
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Overshoot = Growth Machine
externalisation = destruction of commons = opposite of sustainability = driver of economic growth
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Externalisation = the opposite of sustainability
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...lack of understanding
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Richness doesn´t make happy – neither in the West...
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...nor worldwide.
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I don´t know this indian ->
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
[...] All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself”
See-at-la, or Seattle, Chief of the Duwamish, 1855, in a letter to the 14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce.
