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Explore the ironic gap between environment and business, the suppression of our immune system by industry, and the urgent need to transform ecology. Discover the roots of waste creation, the necessity for redesign, and the responsibility for sustainable practices. Address the challenges posed by economic growth and the myth of overabundance. Uncover the complex relationship between waste, income, and diversity, and the implications of carrying capacity and species loss. Embrace the concept of industrial ecology and the shift towards a restorative economy.
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A Teasing Irony • Gap between environment and business, ecology and economics • Industry suppresses our immune system • Free market capitalism? • Restorative economy • Waste, income and capital, diversity
The Death of Birth • Transforming ecology is unavoidable. American culture to invasive weeds • What are we taking? • Usurpation of planetary production • Carrying capacity • Species loss • Self interest and the myth of overabundance
The Creation of Waste • End-of-pipe cleanup • Creation of waste is the root, Disposal is a symptom • Molecular waste. Bioaccumulation. Biomagnification. • Economic growth as a prerequisite for environmental health? • Redesign, Robert, succession
Parking Lots and Potato Heads • Restoration, rejuvenation, innovation • Interface modular carpeting • Industrial Ecology • Degradable products, reclaimable products of service, parking lots of unsalables • Responsibility
Pigou’s Solution • Prices, costs, market economy? • The primary freedom is growth • Industrialization • Pigouvian taxes • Higher costs to consumers? • Cheapness threatens our integrity
The Size Thing • Multinational corporations, politics, money, power • Globalization • GATT, WTO, environmental regs • Enormity • Corporations are the opposite of nature.
When an Ethic is not an Ethic • Growth addiction, indebtedness, stress • Propaganda • What is for sale in America is our welfare. • Time • Values, creating meaningful employment
Restoring the Guardian • A systemic problem • Governance and commerce • Reward those that internalize costs most • Set standards for planning/developing new business • Green taxes. A shift from goods to bads • Creativity
Pink Salmon and Green Fees • Efficiency • Green fees: energy, farming, traffic, war • Public utilities: publicly regulated, privately managed, market-based • Salmon utility? • Low or no tariffs to most sustainable nations
The Inestimable Gift of a Future • Resilience • Carrying capacity, exemptionalist thinking, Malthusianism • The 29th day, exponential growth • Q of life, increasing stratification • Waste, shift to income not capital, diversity • Favelas • Democracy