arnsperger efficiency law
Without Structural Reforms, Increased Efficiencies are Useless – Christian Arnsperger
legit freedom (beyond structural reform) will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p
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via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1797488818591051858]:
Quote of the Day, June 3, 2024 On the Jevons paradox: * Without Structural Reforms, Increased Efficiencies are Useless..t “Gains in resource and energy efficiency have never led to a sustained decrease in humanity’s raw materials and raw fuels consumption with a stationary level of GDP. Invariably, in waves, the engineers’ contribution to shop-floor efficiency in production processes have been used by the businesses that employ these engineers to save on costs so as to be able to produce and sell more. In fact, what we call economic growth is the long history of the diversion of efficiency gains into production increases. And quite often, this also ends up leading to more, rather than less, raw material extraction and consumption. If any engineer ever had the illusion that they would be working to improve the world through efficiency, he or she should think again — and take a good, hard look at how businesses and industries are, by the very logic of single-minded profit-seeking that moves them, hijacking the efficiency gains and transforming them (when ‘successful’) into gains in sales and in profits, and usually also into increases in global resource consumption. More fuel-efficient automobiles or airplanes, for instance, are a total scam — not in themselves or as feats of cutting-edge engineering, but because they make driving or flying cheaper per kilometer, so that all of us car or airline users can do more kilometers than before with a ‘clean conscience’, all the while helping companies reap profits from diverting their engineers’ well-meaning micro-level efforts into ecologically deleterious impacts at the macro level.” – Christian Arnsperger https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Thermodynamic_Efficiencies#Without_Structural_Reforms,_Increased_Efficiencies_are_Useless
*there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
legit freedom (beyond structural reform) will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p
kelly efficiency law.. efficiency
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on googling him
[https://igd.unil.ch/ChArnsperger/en/presentation/]:
Christian Arnsperger is professor of sustainability and economic anthropology at the Institute for Geography and Sustainability (IGD) of the Faculty of Geoscience and Environmental Studies (FGSE). He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Louvain (Belgium) and has been teaching and researching for many years at the interface between economic analysis, human sciences, and existential philosophy. A specialist of post-consumerist/ post-growth economic alternatives and of the link between ecological transition and the change of mentalities and lifestyles..t, he is also a former scientific adviser to the Alternative Bank Switzerland (ABS).
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us.. ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
At the IGD, Prof. Arnsperger more specifically centers his activities around the following areas:
- Monetary theory and the macroeconomics of sustainability
- Sustainable lifestyles and existential economics
- Permacircularity, convivialism, and sustainability
- Sustainable culture and indigenous knowledge
- The cultural roots of unsustainability in the United States
[https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/christian-arnsperger/]:
Christian Arnsperger (in his own words): “I’m an economist (born on July 26, 1966) who’s *interested in social ethics, in epistemology (whatever that is), and above all in the transition from today’s unsustainable system to a plurality of sustainable alternatives..t I grew up in a German family in France and in the USA. I studied economics in Strasbourg (France) and Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), going on to a Ph.D. in 1995 and, in 2006, a “habilitation.” My main employer is the Belgian National Science Foundation (F.R.S.-FNRS). I teach in the economics and sociology departments of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, and I do my research at the Hoover Chair for Economic and Social Ethics.”
need: sabbatical ish transition
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