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UN Environment Programme – Nov 24, 2022

Honoured in the 2022 Champions of the Earth category of Science and Innovation, Sir Partha Dasgupta is an eminent economist whose landmark review on the economics of biodiversity calls for a fundamental rethink of humanity’s relationship with the natural world to prevent critical ecosystems from reaching dangerous tipping points.

See related:

• The trouble with Economists is that they are – for the most part – focused upon the wrong problem: making extinction “more efficient….”
• Herman Daly, 84, Who Challenged the Economic Gospel of Growth, Dies – The New York Times
• Dr. Herman Daly: Sustainability & the Scale of the Economy
• Herman Daly, Ph.D., 13 Nov. 2007
• No More Room for Growth – Herman Daly at the World Bank
• Herman Daly on the Economy & the Environment
• Herman Daly’s Economics for a Full World | Book launch event, Nov 2021
• The Law & The Profits vs. Natural Law & The Prophet: Herman Daly & the Future of the Human Prospect
• Global-Balliol
• “The Truth about the Green Revolution,” contribution to GTI Forum “Technology and the Future,” Great Transition Initiative (February 2022).
• BBC World Service – The Climate Question, Can we feed the world without using chemical fertilisers?
• Ignorance, Arrogance, Overshoot & Collapse: The Destructive Power of Enduing Myths In Collapsing Civilizations
• Overcoming the Multiple Legacies of European Colonialism: Can The West Survive Its Most Cherished Historical Myths? 
• Misplaced Metaphors in the Anthropocene: Beware of the Devastating Power of Cultural Clichés & Misconstrued Metaphors on a Small Planet
• The Vulnerability of the Global Food System and the Strategies Needed for a Sustainable “Recovery”
• The Malthus Insight and the Global Limits of “Green Revolution” Food Production
• “If you do not change direction, you will most likely end up where you are headed.”

as well as:

• “Transition Studies” … because extinction is not the goal…and
• To Respect the Earth’s Limits — or Push Them? – Bill McKibben – The New York Times
• The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World – Charles Mann
• Setting the Record Straight: The Depth, Severity and History of the Scientific Evidence on Earth’s Unfolding Climate Catastrophe
• Why Transition Studies?

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