The document discusses the relationship between the economy and the environment. It argues that modern economies have prioritized economic growth over environmental protection, degrading natural resources and ecosystems. The current economic paradigm views the economy as separate from the environment, but in reality the economy depends on the finite natural resources of the environment. The economy extracts resources from the environment, uses them, and returns them in a degraded form as waste. For the economy and human life to be sustainable, economic growth must be subordinate to environmental limits and the new economic paradigm must converge with ecological principles by producing more with less resources.

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In the path of prosperity, modern economies devastated many of the
natural resources. In the name of economic growth, industrial activity
squandered ecosystems services (responsible for the maintenance of
biodiversity), disfiguring nature on several fronts. Arguably, climate has
been - and is being - caused by "man-economics." The goal? To make
the economy grow exponentially producing in excess to meet the
excessive consumption. The result? The environment threatened by
excessive consumption. The result of this? Environmental depletion.
Unequivocally, economic output implies destruction and degradation of
the environment. By itself, it is enough to guide decision-making
towards the development of a new economic paradigm geared to
ecological orders, not to market-led ideology.

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If we do not change the current economic paradigm it is the very
economy that increasingly plays into the abyss of destruction, as Lester
Brown remembered, "the economy depends on the environment. If
there is no environment, if everything is destroyed, there is no
economy.“
Regarding this line of analysis, Clovis Cavalcanti tells us that "there is
no society (and economy) without an ecological system, but there can
be an environment without society (and economy)." "Without
recovering the environment, the economy is not saved, without
recovering the economy, you don't save the environment,"
contextualized the U.S. ecologist Berry Commoner (1917-2012).

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Nessa mesma linha de análise, Clóvis Cavalcanti nos diz que "não
existe sociedade (e economia) sem sistema ecológico, mas pode
haver meio ambiente sem sociedade (e economia)". "Sem recuperar o
meio ambiente, não se salva a economia; sem recuperar a economia,
não se salva o meio ambiente", contextualizou o ecologista norte-
americano Berry Commoner (1917-2012).
While in its conventional models the traditional economy makes it a
point to not include the framework or environmental constraints,
because the prevailing view of the economic system as a whole extols
the praises of the circular flow of wealth, imagining, therefore, an
economy as an isolated system, like a human body endowed with only
the circulatory system, there is no denying the enormous degree of
economic dependence in relation to a finite natural ecosystem (the
environment), since the fundamental nature of the economy is to
extract, produce and consume.

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The relationship of the economy (industrial activity) with the
environment is intense. One cannot lose sight that the economic
system is an open system that exchanges energy with the
environment. In this exchange, it receives prime energy (clean) and
returns it in a degraded form (dirty).
So, metaphorically, if the economy is a human body, the digestive tract
is contemplated here, since it receives from nature and returns matter
and energy in the form of waste. Reaffirming that idea, we should
remember a passage from Nicholas Georgescu-Rogen (1906-94): "The
economic system consumes nature - matter and energy with low
entropy - and provides garbage - matter and energy high entropy -
back to nature."

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Therefore, it is of fundamental importance to subordinate the growth to
the limits of the ecosystem, since growing beyond the "normal" is highly
detrimental to the environment. Therefore, the new economic paradigm
must converge with the ecology, since we depend on this for our own
survival. The challenge is unique: produce more (welfare) with less
(natural resources). Produce more quality (development), not quantity
(growth).
Hence the maxim that we are therefore dependent on the environment,
thus contradicting the speech of René Descartes (1596-1650) that "we
are masters and lords of nature." For this idea of the French​​
philosopher, the economy wasteful of natural resources, managed by
"economic man-" would be acting correctly in propagating destruction,
pollution and environmental degradation, since to generate wealth is
generated before the destruction of nature.

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The future of life - and especially of human life - on Earth, shall depend
on the direction that we give to the economy today. If our ultimate goal
is the continuity of the life of our species we should follow the
prescriptions advocated by Georgescu-Rogen: "(...) one day humanity
will have to reconcile development with the economic downturn."
Otherwise, we will perish.
Marcus Eduardo de Oliveira is an economist,
specializing in International Politics by
(HSPA) and master's degree programmes
(USP).
prof.marcuseduardo@bol.com.br

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