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A Failure

Leopold *Mill Roegen *Malthus Daly *Zizek Naess *Harvey Hardin *Foster Bookchin *Wilson Mumford *Marx Ehrlich *Goodwin Hansen *Lovelock Diamond *Sagoff Speth *Taintter

Total failure at all levels Deal with superficial only Emphasize symptoms Never go to the root Avoid rocking the boat (teach what is known to be false)

Net Primary Production 3/9 Planetary boundaries have been breeched Millennium Ecosystem assessment Study. Lovelock /Hansen /Speth projections Peak Oil Fisheries I=f(P,A,T) Water Scarcity Desertification Ecological foot print

Solution is NOT in ecology itself.

Apply principle of Specificity.

Call for a radical change in structure that created the problem: CAPITALISM

What is it that we wish to sustain? Intergenerational equity Veil of Ignorance Pareto Optimality Free market cannot guarantee sustainability Allocations always favour the present

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

The more we do the less we have

Substitutability vs Complimentarity

Simplicity: Is it possible to revert to it?

Popularized by Daly Given rise to CASSE New Economics Foundation Tim Jackson New Economics Institute Goodwin

Basic premise: Constant human population and constant physical output

Competition and Tragedy of the Commons New Indulgances (Ex. BAU and organic) Greenwashing (Pretense: Climate Change) Three R’s (Is Recycling the only one compatable

with perpetual growth?) Brown even wrote about a world with no need for

new extracting activities lol. Capitalism, ecological crisis, economic and

financial crisis.

Growth vs limits Could system be reformed ? (Not if the privileges of

the global elite are maintained) Climate change is the product of a specific

economic system and its negative effects fall primarily on those least responsible for the crisis.

Green Capitalist( Hawken, Brown, Cairncross, Lovin, Gore…)

Belief to de-couple growth from carbon Efficiency leads to more and not less. De materialization is quite limited Green often creates new problems ( Cut the

amazon to plant sugar cane for organic food stores and farm raised fish; certified wood)

In Us energy intensity dropped but energy usage increased.

EV vs source for electricity

Prius vs Nickel

60% of car pollution is in production

Clean Energy and base load

Kyoto failed (Gr. & UK only 2 to meet target) Cap & Trade failed ( because of T. of Commons) Carbon Tax failed (They were kept too low) Can we decrease carbon foot print and use non

conventional oil? Democrats and Republicans (RR, Bush Sr; Bush

Jr ;Clinton and Obama oppose carbon taxes)

Daily consumption 200 million B. Equivalent Renewables represent 0.6% The above indicates that large cuts are required but

not for Green Capitalists: Sternest 1% cost in UK and Krugman 1.1-3% for US. ( That does not make any sense)

Stern targets 550ppm when Hansen speaks of 350ppm.

550 ppm increase temp. by 3C (That’s where we were 3 million years ago)

Green Capitalists are dreaming View that Max. exploitation and saving the planet are compatible is a

farce. CEO’s max for shareholders and not the public good. Green Capitalists have been trying for 30 years: Eco system is still

collapsing Their diagnosis is accurate but their prescription is wrong Underestimate severity of eco crisis and overestimate de-materialization They conveniently forget that consumerism is not dispensable. This is a capitalist crisis. It is about mode of production and system

architecture. Capitalist system carries within it the seeds of its own destruction since

growth is not sustainable. Einstein:” Insanity is to do the same thing over and over againbut expecta

different outcome”

Market based solutions have aggravated the problems:

organic eco architecture bio fuels hybrid cars carbon offsets clean coal

There is a crisis of capitalism that manifests itself in Econ. Finance and Ecological spheres.

Green Capitalism is for the Environment as long as it can profit from it.

Easterbrook: “What’s in it for me?”

Green Capitalism is the problem and so it cannot be the solution.

His is an “unquestioned belief that the answers to every human dilemma and desire is a gizmo… the very attitude that gave us Global warming to begin with”

How about abolishing obscene excesses, a modicum of equitable distribution? How about asking whether we are of the same specie , members of the same family and citizens of the same community?

Is there a moral obligation to others?