{"id":55826,"date":"2020-12-01T08:21:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55826"},"modified":"2020-12-01T08:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:21:04","slug":"economics-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55826","title":{"rendered":"Economics and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Economics and the environment<\/a><\/h3>\n
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This is the text, including slides, from a talk given on October 28 2020 during an online event organised by University College Cork\u2019s Economics and Environmental Societies. (I didn\u2019t follow the text word for word during the talk, but it covered the same ground)<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you very much, I\u2019m delighted to be able to participate in this discussion.<\/p>\n

My name is Caroline Whyte, I have a background in ecological economics and I do research and help with communications for a think tank called Feasta: the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability.<\/p>\n

Feasta, as some of you may know, is the Irish word for \u2018in the future\u2019. We have our administrative headquarters in at the ecovillage in Cloughjordan, and we\u2019re in the Environmental Pillar of Irish environmental NGOs and in Stop Climate Chaos Ireland, but our focus is actually quite global and we have international membership. I\u2019ll be explaining a bit more about Feasta later.<\/p>\n

If I\u2019m asked about the role economics plays in the environment and sustainability, my answer would be \u2018what kind of economics are you talking about\u2019 because there are a lot of different schools of thought within economics. You could be forgiven for not knowing that though, because there\u2019s one particular school of thought that\u2019s become quite dominant in university courses and in think tanks, political advisory groups, the media and so on \u2013 you could call it Neoclassical economics.<\/p>\n

I find this approach to economies \u2013 particularly standard macroeconomic theory \u2013 quite problematic in many ways for the environment and for society and I\u2019ll explain why in a minute. I\u2019d argue that there needs to be a much broader range of economic thinking in universities, in the media, in advisory groups, all over really, if the economy is going to be able to adapt itself properly to our environment…<\/p>\n

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