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In an unequal society, giving the market the task of reallocating inalienable environmental rights inevitably results in allowing the wealthiest to **offload** social costs onto the poorest. *It is those who cannot afford to pay (in money) who will pay (in kind).* And this is part of a vicious circle where economic inequality attracts to it an environmental inequality that further aggravates the real misery of the dispossessed.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
“It’s time to put aside the search for economic laws demonstrating that growing national output will eventually deliver ecological health. Economics, it turns out, is not a matter of discovering laws: it is essentially a question of design. And the reason why even the world’s richest countries are still making us all feel the burn is because the last two hundred years of industrial activity have been based upon a linear industrial system whose design is inherently degenerative. The essence of that industrial system is the cradle-to-grave manufacturing supply chain of take, make, use, lose: extract Earth’s minerals, metals, biomass and fossil fuels; manufacture them into products; sell those on to consumers who – probably sooner rather than later – will throw them ‘away’. When drawn in its simplest form, it looks something like an industrial caterpillar, ingesting food at one end, chewing it through, and excreting the waste out of the other end. This”
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
Tools, even good tools, are prehuman. The great evolutionary divide is in the relationship: tool-organism.
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
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