Autofagia

Bill Rees on the Self-cannibalizing Nature of Neoclassical Economics: The Promethean myth of ever ascending will and development is one that has played itself out largely to the detriment of the global ecology. Today, our extractive economies have grown to violate the biophysical functioning of the planet in that the entire industrial complex depends upon the utilization/exploitation of natural resources for its survival. Aside from just taking from its finite bounty, we pollute with materials and emissions that nature, for the most part, cannot ingest into its normal organic processes, resulting in a litany of dire consequences- from climate rise to extensive loss of species diversification. Here, professor William Rees, creator of the ecological footprint concept, speaks to the self-cannibalizing nature of an economic model singularly obsessed with growth. J.P. Hayes (Kickitover, 21/02/2011).