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Topic Started: Nov 24 2014, 03:36 PM (157 Views)
noel@ips-dc.org
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The money driven economy on which we presently depend on is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life. However, it is not sufficient merely to end the harm that our suicide Economy inflicts on the planet. Our future depends on replacing our destructive system we have with a living economy.

This monumental challenge implies more than rethinking our economic institutions. Our consumption patterns, built environment, and technologies must be redefined in the most fundamental ways. How can we build, eat and live, supporting a living economy rather than a destructive economy?

If you consider that life began 3.8 billion years ago -- whereas humans only been here for 250 thousands years -- there is certainly some wisdom to draw from nature. The human species indeed represents less than one percent of all the species that have lived Earth. As opposed to us, all these species have managed to fit within ecosystems, respecting life’s principles and creating conditions for life.

What can we learn from other species? How can we design like nature does, as contributing members of Earth’s community of life?
This NET discussion tries to envision a New Economy that works in partnership with the processes by which Earth’s community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence—and ours.

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Edited by noel@ips-dc.org, Nov 24 2014, 03:39 PM.
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