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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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2. You might want to look into Ecological Economics.

Reply to KurtNYC (Original post)

Mon May 14, 2012, 07:47 PM

May 2012

It's not quite what you're thinking about, but it has a whole lot to recommend it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_economics

The big problem with making a shift is going to be prying the current system out of the cold walking-dead fingers of its owners - the corporations for whom it is working quite well, fuck you very much.

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Is there an economic model that transcends the current one:disposable consumer goods + war ? [View all] KurtNYC May 2012 OP

The whole world would have to go along with such a sceme XemaSab May 2012 #1

I think quite a bit of the world would do so ... Nihil May 2012 #3

You might want to look into Ecological Economics. GliderGuider May 2012 #2