ANTH 110I Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noble Eightfold Path, Uneconomic Growth, Herman Daly
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Economic growth is the guiding principle that around which society coheres. Uneconomic growth - production of bad increases faster than production of goods. Isee is the major forum for economists, environmentalists, activists, and academics. Ecological economics is distinct from environmental economics. Spent six years trying to get the world bank to integrate sustainability into their criterias for evaluating projects and making loans. Increasing in social and environmental costs that is faster than increase in production. Ecological economics - wholly contained subsystem of the ecosphere. Forests, agriculture = sectors of the economy. Humans are the total of the economy. Sectors are the part of the economy. But, that was what it was once thought. In actuality, humans are the part and the ecosphere is the whole. Turning nature into the economy according law of conservation of matter and energy. Think of studying economics as a biologist studying human anatomy. Scale of whole human economy in relation to ecosphere.
