{"id":3511,"date":"2014-12-24T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2014-12-24T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:46:02","slug":"revolution-part-2-the-new-paradigm-degrowth-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Worried about the shit hitting the fan on climate change and other major crises? Good. Because those crises prove that civilization is in the midst of a phase shift to new forms \u2013 and we\u2019ve got the opportunity, right now, to ride the wave of five interlinked revolutions in information, food, energy, finance and ethics, to co-create a new way of being that works for everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

In part 1<\/a>, I pointed to the leading edge work of University of Turin economist Prof\u00a0Mauro Bonaiuti<\/a>\u00a0on the deeper roots of the ongoing crisis of capitalism in a wider environmental crisis, where the \u2018endless growth\u2019 model of unlimited material accumulation is increasingly breaching natural and environmental limits of the biosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonaiuti\u2019s message though, far from being all doom and gloom, captures how this phenomenon is symptomatic of a shift in the very nature of civilization itself as it transitions to new social and political forms, as the limits of the biosphere enforce human practices to adapt to the consequences of breaching these limits. This \u2018phase shift\u2019 means we are on the brink of a fundamental change in the way civilization works, one that could have both positive and negative outcomes \u2013 depending on the choices we make as a species.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant \u2018revolutions\u2019 that constitute the positive components of this phase shift, and whose inexorable evolution and proliferation offer profound opportunities for systemic transformation that benefits humanity, and the planet: information, energy, food, finance and ethics.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a>…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014. Worried about the shit hitting the fan on climate change and other major crises? Good. Because those crises prove that civilization is in the midst of a phase shift to new forms \u2013 and we\u2019ve got the opportunity, right now, to ride the wave of five […]<\/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":[2,3,4],"tags":[139,150,180,244,263,2139,319],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-civilization","tag-collapse","tag-crises","tag-economics-2","tag-energy","tag-finances","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}