Applying Our Brains.....as if People and the Planet Mattered

from NEF: Economics as if People and the Planet Mattered

http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/great-transition

Humanity appears caught in a trap with no way out. ‘Business as usual’ is no longer

an option. However, halting and reversing our consumption of more and more

‘stuff’ appears likely to trigger a massive depression with serious unemployment and

poverty. This is certainly true if all we do is ‘apply the brakes’ without fundamentally

redesigning the whole economic system. We are facing a series of interlinked systemic

problems – consuming beyond our planetary limits; untenable inequality; growing

economic instability and a breakdown in the relationship between ‘more’ and ‘better’.

The only way to overcome these systemic problems is through a set of solutions which

themselves address the whole.

As NEF says, applying the brakes isn't enough. I say applying our brains, could be enough.