Jakarta Crown Eco Management: No environment, no economy

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Jakarta Crown Eco

ManagementNo environment, no economy


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No environment, no economyIn the path of prosperity, modern economies devastated many of the

natural resources. In the name of economic growth, industrial activitysquandered ecosystems services (responsible for the maintenance of

biodiversity), disfiguring nature on several fronts. Arguably, climate

has been - and is being - caused by "man-economics." The goal? To

make the economy grow exponentially producing in excess to meet

the excessive consumption. The result? The environment threatenedby excessive consumption. The result of this? Environmental

depletion.

Unequivocally, economic output implies destruction and degradation

of the environment. By itself, it is enough to guide decision-makingtowards the development of a new economic paradigm geared to

ecological orders, not to market-led ideology.


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No environment, no economyIf we do not change the current economic paradigm it is the very

economy that increasingly plays into the abyss of destruction, asLester Brown remembered, "the economy depends on the

environment. If there is no environment, if everything is destroyed,

there is no economy.

Regarding this line of analysis, Clovis Cavalcanti tells us that "there is

no society (and economy) without an ecological system, but there can

be an environment without society (and economy)." "Without

recovering the environment, the economy is not saved, without

recovering the economy, you don't save the environment,"

contextualized the U.S. ecologist Berry Commoner (1917-2012).


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No environment, no economyNessa mesma linha de anlise, Clvis Cavalcanti nos diz que "no

existe sociedade (e economia) sem sistema ecolgico, mas podehaver meio ambiente sem sociedade (e economia)". "Sem recuperar

o meio ambiente, no se salva a economia; sem recuperar a

economia, no se salva o meio ambiente", contextualizou o

ecologista norte-americano Berry Commoner (1917-2012).

While in its conventional models the traditional economy makes it a

point to not include the framework or environmental constraints,

because the prevailing view of the economic system as a whole

extols the praises of the circular flow of wealth, imagining, therefore,

an economy as an isolated system, like a human body endowed withonly the circulatory system, there is no denying the enormous degree

of economic dependence in relation to a finite natural ecosystem (the

environment), since the fundamental nature of the economy is to

extract, produce and consume.


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No environment, no economyThe relationship of the economy (industrial activity) with the

environment is intense. One cannot lose sight that the economicsystem is an open system that exchanges energy with the

environment. In this exchange, it receives prime energy (clean) and

returns it in a degraded form (dirty).

So, metaphorically, if the economy is a human body, the digestive

tract is contemplated here, since it receives from nature and returns

matter and energy in the form of waste. Reaffirming that idea, we

should remember a passage from Nicholas Georgescu-Rogen (1906-

94): "The economic system consumes nature - matter and energy

with low entropy - and provides garbage - matter and energy highentropy - back to nature."


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No environment, no economyTherefore, it is of fundamental importance to subordinate the growth

to the limits of the ecosystem, since growing beyond the "normal" ishighly detrimental to the environment. Therefore, the new economic

paradigm must converge with the ecology, since we depend on this

for our own survival. The challenge is unique: produce more (welfare)

with less (natural resources). Produce more quality (development),

not quantity (growth).

Hence the maxim that we are therefore dependent on the

environment, thus contradicting the speech of Ren Descartes (1596-

1650) that "we are masters and lords of nature." For this idea of the

French philosopher, the economy wasteful of natural resources,managed by "economic man-" would be acting correctly in

propagating destruction, pollution and environmental degradation,

since to generate wealth is generated before the destruction of

nature.


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No environment, no economyThe future of life - and especially of human life - on Earth, shall

depend on the direction that we give to the economy today. If ourultimate goal is the continuity of the life of our species we should

follow the prescriptions advocated by Georgescu-Rogen: "(...) one

day humanity will have to reconcile development with the economic

downturn." Otherwise, we will perish.

Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira is an

economist, specializing in International

Politics by (HSPA) and master's degree

programmes (USP).

[email protected]


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No environment, no economyORIGINAL ARTICLE:

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/05-06-

2013/124751-environment_economy-0/

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