‘Ecological Economics For Humanity’s Plague Phase’ (2020) – A Book (or report) in 5 Minutes, No.3
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2021-09-15

Ramblinactivist 2021/17, 15th September 2021

People look upon life with a certain inevitability…
Each morning the Sun comes up. We instinctively know this. The problem is that in the modern world, people sometimes find it difficult to tell the difference between: Natural phenomena – like the Sun rising; and the grandiose myths we tell ourselves – like the functioning of the economy.

I’ve picked this paper as an example of an academic work that needs to be more widely read. Written by Professor William E. Rees, one of the originators of the idea of ‘ecological footprinting’, it reviews how humanity is changing the global environment.

You can view the text of the blog and download the audio podcast from the web page here:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/reviews/003/index.shtml

From that page you can also access a copy of Rees' paper to read yourself.

It would really help to promote this work if you could follow, subscribe, or like my social media presence -- which can be accessed from the link above. In today’s digital analytics popularity contest, all that button-pressing means something in today’s messed-up world.

You can find all the book review in this series here:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/book_in_5.shtml