{"id":3421,"date":"2014-12-22T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2014-12-22T13:51:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:51:05","slug":"revolution-part-1-the-end-of-growth-degrowth-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3421","title":{"rendered":"Revolution, Part 1: The End of Growth? | Degrowth 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revolution, Part 1: The End of Growth? | Degrowth 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New research suggests that the ongoing global economic crisis is symptomatic of a deeper crisis of industrial civilization\u2019s relationship with nature. The continuation of the crisis, though, does not imply the end of the world \u2013 but rather is part of major phase shift to a new form of civilization that could either adapt to post-carbon reality and prosper, or crumble in denial.<\/em><\/p>\n

We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works. Even as so many global crises are accelerating, a range of interconnected systemic revolutions are converging in a way that could facilitate a transformation of the global economy from one that maximizes material accumulation for the few, to one that caters for the needs and well being of all.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the conclusion of a major new book published as part of the \u2018Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics\u2019 series,\u00a0The Great Transition<\/em><\/a>, by Prof\u00a0Mauro Bonaiuti<\/a>, an economist at the University of Turin in Italy. Bonaiuti\u2019s book applies the tools of complexity science to diagnose the real dynamic and implications of the global economic crisis that most visibly erupted in 2008.<\/p>\n

That crisis, Bonaiuti argues, is not simply a part of the cyclical boom and bust process, but is a symptom of a longer \u201cpassage of civilization.\u201d Advanced capitalist societies are in a \u201cphase of declining returns\u201d measured across the period after the Second World War, including GDP growth, energy return on investment (how much energy is put in compared to what we get out), manufacturing productivity, among others.<\/p>\n

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Revolution, Part 1: The End of Growth? | Degrowth 2014. New research suggests that the ongoing global economic crisis is symptomatic of a deeper crisis of industrial civilization\u2019s relationship with nature. The continuation of the crisis, though, does not imply the end of the world \u2013 but rather is part of major phase shift to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[2090,150,423,2092],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-civilization-collapse","tag-collapse","tag-industrial-civilization","tag-nafeez-ahmed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}