{"id":37112,"date":"2018-08-28T06:57:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T11:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37112"},"modified":"2018-08-28T06:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T11:57:10","slug":"a-sufficiency-vision-for-an-ecologically-constrained-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37112","title":{"rendered":"A Sufficiency Vision for an Ecologically Constrained World"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu\/a-sufficiency-vision-for-an-ecologically-constrained-world\/\">A SUFFICIENCY VISION FOR AN ECOLOGICALLY CONSTRAINED WORLD<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"introduction\">\n<p>Owing to the limits of eco-efficiency and the need to liberate environmental space for the global poor, new policy instruments should be designed to bring about ecological fair sharing between countries and a new economy based on the concept of sufficiency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EU economic policies should pursue an equitable downscaling of Member States\u2019 environmental \u2018throughput\u2019, namely the rate at which they use energy and raw materials. Since a constant increase in the transformation of natural resources into goods and services is ingrained in our current economic system, this downscaling challenges the dominant economic belief in the feasibility and desirability of infinite economic growth. This implies a new direction for societies, one in which they will organise and live differently from today.<\/p>\n<p>The sufficiency transformation would mean that people work fewer hours in paid employment, share jobs and services, and lead more social and less materialistic lifestyles. Although economic activity would be more localised, the state would have an important role both to limit material and energy use, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2017\/may\/22\/wealth-redistribution-and-population-management-are-the-only-logical-way-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redistribute income and wealth<\/a>. Many new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu\/can-we-prosper-without-growth-10-policy-proposals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy ideas<\/a> for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/riccardo-mastini\/degrowth-case-for-constructing-new-economic-paradigm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic paradigm shift<\/a> have been developed and discussed at the academic and grassroots levels in recent years. And finally NGOs have started talking about this too with Friends of the Earth Europe recently publishing the booklet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/sufficiency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sufficiency: moving beyond the gospel of eco-efficiency<\/em><\/a> which includes several policy proposals to advance the debate towards a post-growth economy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"green\">Why the economics of enough<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We live in a world where more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionagainsthunger.org\/global-poverty-hunger-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 billion people<\/a> still live on less than 3.10\u00a0international dollars per day. While the global share of people living under this poverty line has been <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/no-matter-what-global-poverty-line\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in steady decline<\/a>for the past few decades, there is very little hope that this trend can continue without a change of paradigm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SUFFICIENCY VISION FOR AN ECOLOGICALLY CONSTRAINED WORLD Owing to the limits of eco-efficiency and the need to liberate environmental space for the global poor, new policy instruments should be designed to bring about ecological fair sharing between countries and a new economy based on the concept of sufficiency. EU economic policies should pursue an [&hellip;]<\/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":[21425,234,284,20380,13155],"class_list":["post-37112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-eco-efficiency","tag-ecology","tag-european-union","tag-green-european-journal","tag-sufficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37112","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=37112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37113,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37112\/revisions\/37113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}