Listen to this podcast by McGill University Professor Peter Brown. In your blog post, discuss several of the following questions. Please demonstrate that you took good notes on what he said and can discuss the ideas.
What caused the problems facing nature and society today?
What way of thinking has caused it?
What’s science got to do with it?
What does he say about the economic system? Is growth great?
What is fair?
What does the economic system have to do with human rights and refugees?
What’s a global commons?
What works to change society?
Why is this an issue that goes beyond simply educating people out of their desire to consume? What did Marx say about trade?
Can we have a high standard of living without high income? How?
What words did you jot down as he spoke? A few that stood out for me were:
- Resilience, beauty
- Destroying complexity
- Separation of human and earth
- Moral universe not extended to farm animals
- Citizenship is being a player in an infinite creative game
- We have to keep this game going
- Governing heads of banks argue for infinite growth in a finite system
- Ethical command is buy more
- Personhood of corporations
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