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by lcam84
2864 days ago
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The book is called "limits to growth", and it's a work of the Club of Rome. You can watch this video to have an idea of their work [1]. At first it's a very strange idea, afterall we work and consume everyday in order to grow the economy. But every healthy system as a homeostastic point, a point where it doesn't need to grow, only to be maintained.
We are now a fat society and we need to get our health back, we need to degrow. We need to work much less hours and consume much less. Reducing working hours is a great leverage point. People will start to have time to care about the community, and take care of their own health. Maybe have more time to take a walk instead of using the car. This can improve health and environment but will not contribute to economic growth, healthy people that don't use cars are not good friends of economic growth based on GDP.
English is not my mother language, Ursula Le Guin had an eloquent post about this on her blog, but was removed to be on the last book. The post is called "Clinging to a Metaphor" (the metaphor is economic growth) and the book is called "No Time to Spare".
[1] https://youtu.be/kz9wjJjmkmc |
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"Thinking in Systems: a Primer" (2008) https://g.co/kgs/B71ebC
Glossary of systems theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_systems_theory
Systems Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
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Computational Thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking
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