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Chargement... How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Todaypar John Thackara
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John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs in a sustainable way. He believes that in our eagerness to find technological solutions to the big challenges faced by the human race, we have all too often ignored the astonishing creativity generated when people work together and in harmony with the world around them. Drawing on an inspiring range of examples, from a temple-led water management system in Bali that dates back hundreds of years to an innovative e-bike collective in Vienna, Thackara shows that below the radar of the mainstream media there are global communities creating a replacement economy from the ground up. Through a series of chapters each devoted to essential human concerns, he demonstrates that it is possible to live a rich and fulfilling life based on stewardship rather than exploitation of the natural environment. Ultimately optimistic, Thackara believes that through a huge variety of quiet, piecemeal changes of thought and action, we are coming to a tipping point: the end of one civilization but the beginning of another. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The problem is that these alternatives are boutique, and even not evaluated themselves for actual evidence based sustainability given they are small and not well measured.
I find this unproductive, to reorient answers of sustainability around small businesses with intrinsically non scaleable models. In the extreme it creates the illusion of there being an answer where this is not so. Complex issues collapsed in small projects that are not measured and presented as direction for the world.
If only the author would acknowledge these limitations and explain that these are experiments and perhaps one will work better than others. Or is the proposition that if we embed lifestyle with production close enough we don’t need to worry about the world only our back yard?
To add to this there is the usual implicit bashing of technologies that could be part of the solution from nuclear to gene engineering... ( )