Saving the environment sounds like a bitter economic pill. Yet, the state of our planet forces us to rethink global consumer-driven economics, which has served us well… until now. Reshaping our economies for sustainability is a less painful but necessary approach, and could even prove more lucrative in the long-run.
Category Archives: Economics
How far can prosperity and uncontrolled population growth go hand in hand?
The mice in the experiment proved that uncontrolled population expansion was a disaster. Let’s hope human expansion on a planet will fare better.
Given greater levels of international cooperation, how necessary is it for countries to engage in the arms trade?
Global cooperation has increased, true, but not to the point that nations can trust one another enough to finally put the arms trade out of business. We still have too many insecurities, too much paranoia for that to happen.
To what extent can any society claim to be great?
Anyone calling themselves ‘great’ opens themselves to derision, dissection, and a diagnosis of delusions of grandeur. Rather, greatness is deserved and is ascribed as recognition of the magnitude the the good they have done for others. For societies, that’s a very high bar to reach.
To what extent is human life in general about the survival of the fittest?
It’s amazing how our species, comparatively physically weak as it is, could overtake our competing species and finally emerge at the top of the Earth’s food chain. In the game of ‘survival of the fittest’, how did we win? And what did we win?
How reliable are statistics as a guide for planning the future?
The link between superstition and statistics is closer than we think. They both rely on ‘confirmation bias’ as the basis for determining possible future outcomes, but statistics’ meticulous and methodical approach to event analysis is still a slightly stronger basis to base important plans on.