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The Ecology of Commerce

The Ecology of Commerce. A Teasing Irony. Gap between environment and business, ecology and economics Industry suppresses our immune system Free market capitalism? Restorative economy Waste, income and capital, diversity. The Death of Birth.

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The Ecology of Commerce

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  1. The Ecology of Commerce

  2. A Teasing Irony • Gap between environment and business, ecology and economics • Industry suppresses our immune system • Free market capitalism? • Restorative economy • Waste, income and capital, diversity

  3. The Death of Birth • Transforming ecology is unavoidable. American culture to invasive weeds • What are we taking? • Usurpation of planetary production • Carrying capacity • Species loss • Self interest and the myth of overabundance

  4. The Creation of Waste • End-of-pipe cleanup • Creation of waste is the root, Disposal is a symptom • Molecular waste. Bioaccumulation. Biomagnification. • Economic growth as a prerequisite for environmental health? • Redesign, Robert, succession

  5. Parking Lots and Potato Heads • Restoration, rejuvenation, innovation • Interface modular carpeting • Industrial Ecology • Degradable products, reclaimable products of service, parking lots of unsalables • Responsibility

  6. Pigou’s Solution • Prices, costs, market economy? • The primary freedom is growth • Industrialization • Pigouvian taxes • Higher costs to consumers? • Cheapness threatens our integrity

  7. The Size Thing • Multinational corporations, politics, money, power • Globalization • GATT, WTO, environmental regs • Enormity • Corporations are the opposite of nature.

  8. When an Ethic is not an Ethic • Growth addiction, indebtedness, stress • Propaganda • What is for sale in America is our welfare. • Time • Values, creating meaningful employment

  9. Restoring the Guardian • A systemic problem • Governance and commerce • Reward those that internalize costs most • Set standards for planning/developing new business • Green taxes. A shift from goods to bads • Creativity

  10. Pink Salmon and Green Fees • Efficiency • Green fees: energy, farming, traffic, war • Public utilities: publicly regulated, privately managed, market-based • Salmon utility? • Low or no tariffs to most sustainable nations

  11. The Inestimable Gift of a Future • Resilience • Carrying capacity, exemptionalist thinking, Malthusianism • The 29th day, exponential growth • Q of life, increasing stratification • Waste, shift to income not capital, diversity • Favelas • Democracy

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