• Thinking and Acting in a Disrupted World: Governance, Environment, People, Inequality and Disease

    Author(s):
    André Francisco Pilon (see profile)
    Date:
    2020
    Subject(s):
    Education, Politics and government, Economics, Ethics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    human environment, Politics, Environment
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/55ec-j808
    Abstract:
    Given the new global focus on "building back better" from COVID-19, proposals should use the opportunity to ensure that projects meet all sustainability goals. Earth regeneration and people regeneration depend on each other and should be dealt with simultaneously in space and time. “Development” proposals, “technological solutions”, generally ignore social, cultural and environmental impacts, linking nature (natural capital) to the financial domain, always requiring more resources, without changing the irrational system of production, transport and consumption that plagues the world. The asymmetry of political and economic power between common people and corporations has led to natural devastation, biodiversity loss, precarious housing, lack of sanitation, fatal epidemics, high levels of crime and violence, with severe environmental, political, economic and social impacts. Changing the paradigms of development, growth, power, wealth, work and freedom embedded into the political, technological, economic and educational institutions; requires the development of institutional capacity, judicial neutrality, informational transparency, social spaces for civic engagement and enlightened political participation,
    Notes:
    EuroScientist Journal [on line]: https://www.euroscientist.com/thinking-and-acting-in-a-disrupted-world-governance-environment-people-inequality-and-disease/
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    Publisher:
    EuroScientist
    Pub. Date:
    14 MAY, 2020
    Journal:
    EuroScientist Journal
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All-Rights-Granted
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