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Is sustainable development actually possible for human beings, or is it a…

- - - - exploitation, war, irrationality of the whole
- - - - people become objects of this culture
      - bad faith
      - epistemic discontinuity b/w north and south
      - the death project
        
        death of culture and of individuals whose traditional lives become collateral damage to a project that's supposed to be in people’s best interest
    - - harm vs. help
        
        do "seemingly" sustainable development promoting activities end up becoming more wasteful (time, energy, building materials, etc.) than the lack thereof? of course they do!
        
        case study: "In a community they can not survive in, the Urus have new houses and a better school."
  - - - where development aid does not reduce people to one identity
      - with self-governance
      - people are not objects of human rights culture
    - - shift the geography of reason
      - shift the temporality of reason
- - - - capitalist mode of production
        
        incentive to own more property to rent out
        
        system encourages exploitation of lower class and the natural environment
        
        greed takes over
        
        tendency to overuse due to vested interest in expansion
        
        classes form
        
        capitalist farmer
        
        wage-labourer
        
        landowner
      - class of people who live off rent-seeking
        
        strong economic interest in increasing the number of people in the country
  - - - no exploitation
      - focus on living within not above means
      - opportunities for wage-labourer's growth
      - goals of fairness and community-wide sustainability not wasteful profit gain
- - - - stages
        
        take-off
        
        drive to maturity
        
        preconditions for take-off
        
        age of high mass consumption
        
        traditional society
      - development economics
    - - Kate Raworth Ted Talk
        
        healthy economy is not one designed for growth, but one designed to thrive
      - what do the stages cause?
        
        snowball effect of take-off
        
        villages to mining towns to cities
        
        subsistence to high mass consumption
- - - - a growth-focused society
      - a lack of recognition for the social value of work
      - quantity (of growth) over quality of growth
      - myths of civilization
        
        myth of human centrality
        
        myth of our separation from nature
        
        myth of progress
  - - - no rat race!
      - less hours of work
      - give meaning to work
      - have less stuff
      - make less stuff
    - - use humanities
      - debunking myths
      - finding more adequate solutions in the growth model
- - - - double life
      - denial
      - disbelief
      - fears that hold us captive (pain, guilt, etc.)
    - - lack of mutual understanding and agreement
  - - - integral ecology
        
        the four quadrants
        
        terrains (culture, experience, etc.)
        
        a comprehensive framework for characterizing ecological dynamics