1. “Quale Economia,
per quale Benessere”
22/24 maggio 2014
J. Daniel Dahm
The intrinsic tie between
economy and ecology.
Basic terms and principles of
sustainability in its transdisciplinary
dimensions.

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Our ideas are
changing the world....

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Privates vs. Commons

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„I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life
that wants to life“
Albert Schweitzer

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Commons #1
As Commons we understand first the entirety of all local, regional and
global „natural resources“.
Examples are the ecological diversity including the biological and
genetical multiplicity, the fertility of the soils and vegetation, the
plentifulness of flora and fauna of the oceans, rivers and lakes, the
stability and resilience of the global climate and ecosystem, the raw
materials and the water resources.
They serve all (present and future) humans and the animate world as
base of life and so they are common goods.

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Commons #2
Secondly the definition includes analogously also the cultural and social
fundamentals of humankind in its varying local, regional and global
shapes,
the cultural and social diversity.
That includes knowledge, information and education, tradition and
values, health and participation, legal security and freedom.
They are created by the mutually shared exchange of all (past, present
and future) humans and they serve as base of culture, politics, society
and economy for everyone, and so they are common goods.

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Humans co-create
their living conditions

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Global overshoot and externalisation:
The creeping cancerous privatisation of the commons

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Global Overshoot:
Crossing natural boundaries
Material consumption and wasting resources destroying the global biocapacity

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Dr. J. Daniel Dahm | jdd@sustainability-strategies.org
20.August 2013

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Externalisation leads
to
exhaustion of the global
biological capacity
= Depletion of the ecological
resilience, extermination of the
diversity of life, loss of the
given fertility, destruction of the
commons.

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Ecological creditor and debtor countries
Biocapacity & ecological footprint

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Biocapacity & ecological footprint
Global ecological creditor and debtor countries

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All humans are equal,
but some are more equal than others.
(compare G. Orwell, 1945, Animal Farm)

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Growth engine externalisation

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Economic demand exceeds the ecological offer

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Externalisation and economy
Annual environmental cost and market risks

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Externalisation
Originators

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Peak-Everything

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End of the pipe
g.o. x p.e. = p.l.c. x p.c.

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End of the pipe
global overshoot x peak everything
= peak living conditions x peak consumerism

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Overshoot = Growth Machine
externalisation = destruction of commons = opposite of sustainability
= driver of economic growth

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Externalisation = the opposite of sustainability

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...lack of understanding

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Richness doesn´t make happy – neither in the West...

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...nor worldwide.

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I don´t know this indian ->
“How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us.
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
[...] All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself”
See-at-la, or Seattle, Chief of the Duwamish, 1855,
in a letter to the 14th President of the United States, Franklin Pierce.

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Banksy „Wet Dog“
Molto gracie - thank you very much !
Dr. J. Daniel Dahm
jdd@sustainability-strategies.org