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rune66

Why Malthus Got His Forecast Wrong | Our Finite World - 0 views

  • NIce one Gail, but I wonder personally if debt is the issue: to me its just a symptom. If you take economies as pure systems, then they have natural feedback and feedforward paths. Debt is a way – especially debt based on notional, rather than actual, security – of trading notional surplus today for increased prosperity tomorrow: That is, it is a hugely effective way of accelerating growth in a system that is not resource limited. IN a system that is resource limited, where no growth is physically possible, spiralling debt merely reflects an attempt to engender growth where none is available. Debt itself is not the problem, its merely a symptom of the problem, associated with the fact that governments financial institutions and so on, are desperately trying to create the growth they need to balance their books, when it cant be done. Debt is conceptually easy to solve. simply devalue it by 10 or so. All savers lose 90% of their savings, all borrowers lose 90% of their debt. Wealth gets transferred from lenders to debtors. That’s largely what debt ridden governments have done with QE et al.
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    Velgørende med en lidt mere nuanceret beskrivelse af gæld. Gæld er et symptom på et overstyret system; et system der vil mere end det kan.
sylvester roepstorff

De Økonomiske Råd - Vi er bæredygtige - 1 views

  • men vi skal være opmærksomme på, at vi løber tør for dem på et tidspunkt.
  • Derfor medregnes udtømningen af ressourcen som et negativt bidrag til den ægte opsparing, mens produktionen indgår positivt i BNP. Forbruget af reserverne i Nordsøen har reduceret opsparingen med knap to pct. af BNP om året.
  • Alt i alt har den ægte opsparing med de anvendte beregningsforudsætninger udgjort omkring 7½ pct. af BNP i gennemsnit om året siden 1990. De nuværende generationer har dermed netto lagt værdier svarende til 7½ pct. af produktionen til side til de fremtidige generationer.
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      Dvs. at den samlede opsparing har været 13,5 %, hvoraf altså 6% har været "uægte", dvs. skadelig. 
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    Indlæg i Information af De Økonomiske Råd, 20.4.2012.
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    Det er da positivt, at de i det mindste forsøger, men jeg må indrømme, at jeg dybt skeptisk overfor enhver beregning, der viser at vores nettoopsparing skulle være positivt. Af flere grunde: * Olie og andre ressourcer kommer ikke igen, når de er brugt. Dvs. vi kan uddanne os selv nok så meget (en faktor, som de medregner som positiv opsparing), det vil aldrig kunne erstatte ikke eksisterende resourcer i fremtiden. For mig se er det en temmelig fatal fejl i deres model. * Hvad vil det sige, at produktionen indgår positivt? Enhver ting, som man har produceret, vil jo forsvinde over tid, og er til sammenligning med naturresourcer dermed noget, som på et tidspunkt vil kræve ny produktion (og ressourcer) og opretholde/genfremstille.
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    Helt enig. En typisk økonomisk måde at tænke på. Vi mangler et indeks der måler graden af menneskelige behov - med en nedre og øvre grænse. Det må være rygraden i diskussionen om bæredygtighed. Hvis man kan lave målinger på menneskers lykke, må man også kunne lave et indeks over menneskets behov.
rune66

Claus Vesterskov-Nielsen | LinkedIn - 1 views

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    Så et indlæg fra vedkommende på Politiken på OB's kronik. Beskrev sig selv som politisk aktiv i S, men også at det var umuligt at komme igennem til Christiansborg vedrørende de begrænsede resourcer.
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Ecology of the Mind | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters - 0 views

  • Quiet feels foreign now, but quiet could be just what we need. Silence may be to a healthy mind what clean air and water are to a healthy body.
  • The commercial media are to the mental environment what factories are to the physical environment. A factory dumps pollution into the water or air because that’s the most efficient way to produce plastic or wood pulp or steel. A TV station or website pollutes the cultural environment because that’s the most efficient way to produce audiences. It pays to pollute. The psychic fallout is just the cost of putting on the show.
  • The information we consume is increasingly flat and homogenized. Designed to reach millions, it often lacks nuance, complexity and context. Reading the same factoids on Wikipedia and watching the same viral video on YouTube, we experience a flattening of culture. Cultural homogenization has graver consequences than the same hairstyles, catchphrases, action-hero antics and video clips propagated ad nauseam around the world. In all systems, homogenization is poison. Lack of diversity leads to inefficiency and failure. Infodiversity is as critical to our long-term survival as biodiversity. Both are bedrocks of human existence.
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  • We may be suffering from the infodisease that Nicholas Carr first diagnosed in himself. “Over the past few years,” he writes, “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory… what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
  • The result is a society that treats our cultural heritage as a resource for exploitation. Instead of producing new works of genuine art that replenish our mental environment, we celebrate the amateur whose mash-ups may be hilarious but contribute nothing of value to the cultural conversation. This situation becomes especially distressing when we consider that just as there is a finite amount of nutrients in our soil, there is a finite amount of creativity that the past can yield. Great art is rare, and only so many mash-ups can be released before the original power of a truly artistic creation is lost. And without the production of an authentic culture, our mental environment is in danger of becoming a clear-cut wasteland, overfarmed and depleted. In Lanier’s words, “we face a situation in which culture is effectively eating its own seed stock.”
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    En temmelig pessimistisk og tankevækkende artikel om distraktion, informationssyge og kulturkannibalisme - om forureningen af sindet og tabet af viden og evnen til fordybelse. 
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    Jeg synes bestemt godt om nogen af citaterne måske især den om medierne som forurenende fabrikker. Dog synes jeg også, at den er meget negativ, og derfor lider af mangel på konstruktivitet. Det er meget nemt at være negativ, og man kommer også meget nemt til at overdrive. Igen er spørgsmål om en artikel som ovenstående kan hjælpe os med at handle positivt, eller om den bare får os til at hensynke i mere apati. Jeg synes, at den måske kan give en noget eftertænksomhed og få én til at stoppe op, men handlingsændrende er det nok ikke.
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UbuWeb - 0 views

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    En imponerende samling film fra kunstens verden.
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World-Information.Org - 0 views

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    "The objective of World-Infostructure's knowledge base is to bring focus to the human dimension of information and communication technologies in a dynamic world of vested interests. It is designed to provide an overview of the status quo, the development and the history of the Infosphere as well as to enhance the visibility of issues of public interest that arise in connection with the emergence of digital media and computer networks. "
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