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Development Concepts, It is reasonable to conclude that, after the sudden…
Development Concepts
Kingsnorth and Hine other info
Climate change, which threatens to render all human projects irrelevant; which presents us with detailed evidence of our lack of understanding of the world we inhabit while, at the same time, demonstrating that we are still entirely reliant upon it
human civilisation is an intensely fragile construction. It is built on little more than belief: belief in the rightness of its values; belief in the strength of its system of law and order; belief in its currency; above all, perhaps, belief in its future.
there is an underlying darkness at the root of everything we have built
The ground, the sea, the air, the elemental backdrops to our existence – all these our economics has taken for granted, to be used as a bottomless tip, endlessly able to dilute and disperse the tailings of our extraction, production, consumption
Latouche other info
internalize costs to those who cause them
The virtuous circle of dc-growth could be triggered by some
very simple and apparently almost trivial measures.'
Kingsnorth and Hine
"uncivilization"
The last taboo is the myth of civilisation. It is built upon the stories we have constructed about our genius, our indestructibility, our manifest destiny as a chosen species
We shall make the pilgrimage to the poet’s Dark Mountain, to the great, immovable, inhuman heights which were here before us and will be here after, and from their slopes we shall look back upon the pinprick lights of the distant cities and gain perspective on who we are and what we have become.
This is the Dark Mountain project.
this is the project we must embark on now
eight principles at bottom of manifesto
Latouche
"de-growth"
less inputs, work smarter not harder idea
refining industries to be productive and not use up natural resources = less work, energy, etc. put towards growth but still growing economy
reduce working hours and changing content of work; reidentify work as social value
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It is reasonable to conclude that, after the sudden fall in overall productivity that would result from abandoning technologies we would see modest but steady productivity gains