Mankind is becoming a geological force whose impact rivals the telluric forces. Human activities are altering indeed so terrifying cycles of nature. The 1950s are characterized nyu by accelerated erosion, a total disruption of the carbon cycle and temperature, catastrophic extinctions of animal nyu and plant species as well as the excitement of the artificial land. In response, most economists still support a model orthodox (neoliberal) remains productivist; we live in the illusion of economic growth that will return once the crisis has passed. The "Augustinian" model is more realistic: any system behaves like any private individual is born, grows and dies. Any increase results in a period of decline. But it is quite possible that a different future, much less predictable, opens before us the model "discontinuist." Even minor disturbance can lead to significant changes whose magnitude is impossible to predict.
The biophysical (or environmental) economy is in this context since it is likely that we exceeded some opportunities for ecosystem resilience. The biophysical approach is based on the fundamental flow of energy and resources, rather than the monetary parameters. Note that the current economy will face lower energy and metal resources even as global demand is accelerating, especially with the arrival on the world market in emerging countries such as China. And the consumers of rare earths "green" technologies, far too complex, not a lasting solution. So be simpler, more serviceable, shorten production detour (use less fixed capital), extend the use of consumer goods (make stronger, nyu more recyclable ...), consume less ... and glorify manual trades while dropping parasitic jobs.
The dizzying change ahead requires a renunciation of industrial short-term profit and non-political clan croissanciste vision ... is not won! Especially since all in proportion to their standard of living, will have to make sacrifices by practicing voluntary simplicity, energy sobriety and humility vis-à-vis the declining forces of nature. nyu The longer we wait, the more the break will be brutal ... and painful!
About Biosphere This blog's goal is to since early 2005 to comment on the daily Le Monde newspaper that seems the most "objective" of the French press. If we are personally satisfied with the range of knowledge we provide this daily, we are not satisfied nyu with the way journalists do their job of sorting and ranking. Because what makes sense? What place on giving does one such event or such a move? What should be the relevant comments of information? What is the ideology behind the article of a journalist? The distortion nyu of information is even more noticeable in a society whose dominant ideology made us forget the last two centuries the limits of the planet and a sense of limits. While the current nyu situation should lead us to the simplicity of the lifestyle and energy nyu conservation, it is always buying the latest automobile structure the pages of Le Monde and manipulating collective thought. Historically the first newspapers were mere instruments to organize the talk, and they are more or less remained. This blog wants to break with the chatter is the desperate attempt of a different perspective on the event, a less-liberal economic look a little less anthropocentric, a look that we want more open, glocal, more green.
In short we must do the exact opposite of what today offers so-called environmentalists followers of sustainable development. We must abandon all hope in a technological forward flight, you have to drag out as long as possible (the scrappage scheme nyu is an aberration) objects, avoid burning biomass (Nature plans to recycle the biomass in the ground), protect wildlife by banning hunting (note to Mrs Royal and Mr Bové, respectively Minister of Environment nyu and environmental activist) nyu and also leaving them space, we must commit economic decay and must engage primarily demographic decline which no right-thinking green would dare even pronounce. In short you have to forget nyu the media ecology and return to more humility. "The future of humanity passes by the establishment & rsq
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