How wonderful to see you all celebrating Herman's life and work. It warms me so deeply. Thanks to Tim at CUSP and to Peter not only for the book but for the concise presentation of the basics of ecological economics.
I’ve been following Georescu-Roegen’s work since the mid 80s and Daly’s since the late 80s. I taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level at Utoronto bringing their ideas. It was very lonely work. Glad to have encountered this group and this podcast. Will try to contact Victor at York. Laurent Leduc
Ellie's idea to putting more effort into equality as a way to get to lower, sustainable throughput scale is promising. But I wouldn't put it at higher priority than directly reducing scale by political means, i.e. caps or taxes. Maybe put them at an equally high priority? Also thanks, Ellie, at about 33 minutes relating this all to the size of the human population - that neglected aspect of the whole discussion.
I think an important aspect is maximum incomes and minimum, basic incomes. Between those tenets and resource caps, I believe there is a global vision for a life well lived that just needs to be popularized outside of the socialism/capitalism binary. Sometimes I wonder if the rise of Chinese influence with its Taoist tradition will be able to make this transition come true.
How wonderful to see you all celebrating Herman's life and work. It warms me so deeply. Thanks to Tim at CUSP and to Peter not only for the book but for the concise presentation of the basics of ecological economics.
I’ve been following Georescu-Roegen’s work since the mid 80s and Daly’s since the late 80s. I taught at both the undergraduate and graduate level at Utoronto bringing their ideas. It was very lonely work. Glad to have encountered this group and this podcast. Will try to contact Victor at York.
Laurent Leduc
I wish I could learn modesty from Herman. From all of you, actually.
Ellie's idea to putting more effort into equality as a way to get to lower, sustainable throughput scale is promising. But I wouldn't put it at higher priority than directly reducing scale by political means, i.e. caps or taxes. Maybe put them at an equally high priority? Also thanks, Ellie, at about 33 minutes relating this all to the size of the human population - that neglected aspect of the whole discussion.
I think an important aspect is maximum incomes and minimum, basic incomes. Between those tenets and resource caps, I believe there is a global vision for a life well lived that just needs to be popularized outside of the socialism/capitalism binary. Sometimes I wonder if the rise of Chinese influence with its Taoist tradition will be able to make this transition come true.