#de-growth

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The core feature of the Green New Deal needs to be a worldwide programme to invest between 1.5 and 2 per cent of global gdp every year to raise energy-efficiency standards and expand clean renewable-energy supplies. Through this investment programme, it becomes realistic to drive down global co2 emissions relative to today by 40 per cent within twenty years, while also supporting rising living standards and expanding job opportunities. co2 emissions could be eliminated altogether in forty to fifty years through continuing this clean-energy investment project at roughly the same rate of about 1.5–2 per cent of global gdp per year. It is critical to recognize that, within this framework, a higher economic-growth rate will also accelerate the rate at which clean energy supplants fossil fuels, since higher levels of gdp will correspondingly mean a higher level of investment being channeled into clean-energy projects.

Robert Pollin in New Left Review. De-Growth Vs A  Green New Deal

h/t 3 Quarks Daily

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[kjerstiaspheim]

Menneskelig påvirkning på miljø I*= P × A × T

Ikke at wiki alltid har rett , men I* = P × A × T er en formel som er beskriver virkningen av menneskelig aktivitet på miljøet.

I *= P × A × T der: I *= menneskelig påvirkning på miljøet P = populasjon A = velstand T= teknologi

Kombinert med: kravet om at I*<# når #= planetens tålegrense (I* = P × A × T )<#

Ønsket om å uttrykke miljøpåvirkning som et enkelt produkt av uavhengige faktorer…

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[purposeeker-blog]

Is Money at the root of our big economic and social problems?

"The financial crisis is as much a crisis of economics as of the financial system. Inherent flaws in the modern monetary system overlay and magnify conceptual flaws in prevailing neo-liberal economic policy that rely on frameworks ill-suited to the current context of ecological and social problems. Our response therefore needs to address both the reform of the financial system and a fundamental reframing of economic policy away from an obsession with growth in GDP towards a focus on achieving high human well-being and social justice in harmony with ecological systems."

- from Rethinking the Role of the Economy and Financial Markets by Tony Greenham & Josh Ryan-Collins

How is money really created by banks? http://youtu.be/KvpbQlQwl0A

[bakersbestof]

The Money Paradox

With most the big decisions in life now somehow revolving around money, despite efforts to make it not, I'm always keen to find new research and ideas which question the money paradox. Loved the TED podcast on this subject (http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510298). Bringing in economists and cognitive psychologists to tell us why the brain works the way it does with money was a great idea and I enjoyed learning about some of the reasons we do what we do with money. Some of the cooler findings were... 1. How much money we feel we deserve is totally based on the status quo. Give a monkey an extra treat (1+1) he thinks he's getting more than when he's given just two directly, despite getting the same absolute value. 2. Language helps control spending decisions. Languages which have future-based grammar worked into it are more likely to save for the future. It works as just a constant little reminder. (But who said saving for the future was the most important thing?) 3. Spending money on others makes you happier then spending it on yourself. Essentially, if you spend your money right, you can buy happiness. All these things are good reminders that our brain is constantly tricking us into thinking we need more money (to compete with our colleagues) to make us happy (only if you do it right). I love it when scientific research confirms all these de-growth principles growing in my head which often seem less fact-based but more whimsical than anything.