It’s Time to Pay our Debts to Nature
Roar Bjonnes
Keeping nature separate from the economy and the financial system has caused humanity to accumulate a large ecological debt. It is time for us to pay up.
Category: Economy
We can’t have billionaires and stop climate change
Jason Hickel
Ecological breakdown isn’t being caused by everyone equally. The richest 1% emit 100 times more than the poorest half of humanity. If we are going to survive the 21st century, we need to distribute income and wealth more fairly.
The Natural Resource Crisis: Humanity’s Toughest Challenge
Roar Bjonnes
Economists have always taken nature for granted and kept it out of the accounting books. With humanity facing a resoucre crisis, is it even possible to put a price tag on nature and the services it provides?
Beyond Supply and Demand: A Revolutionary New Concept of Sustainability
James Quilligan
A new perspective on the concept of supply and demand can transform the dynamics of society into a living system, which functions within the limits of the Earth’s carrying capacity.
Going Local: Self-sufficiency Through Decentralization
Roar Bjonnes
What are the conditions that need to be in place to establish a decentralized economy through regional self-sufficiency?
Thriving Communities and the Solidarity Economy
Daniel Christian Wahl
The global economy has kept on growing in recent years, but so has inequality and other social problems. How can communities take independent action to create green local economies and improve prosperity for all?
Growth or Degrowth?
Roar Bjonnes
There is no single answer to the growth/degrowth debate, a balance between distinct strategies for different situations might be the key.
Beyond Climate Change: A New Vision of Resource Utilization
Roar Bjonnes
The urgency of climate change is being used by corporations and governments to push a new type of “green disaster capitalism,” which does very little for the climate and sets the framework to privatize the natural world. We need to denounce this course of action and develop alternative ways of doing business.
The Next Economy: Understanding the Problem, Envisioning Solutions IV
Roar Bjonnes
In part IV of the interview, George Caitlin and Roar Bjonnes examine the challenges and actions to take towards a new post-capitalist economy.
The Next Economy: Understanding the Problem, Envisioning Solutions III
Roshnii Rose
In part III of the interview, George Caitlin and Roar Bjonnes look at the importance of integration in building an alternative to monopoly capitalism.
