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This event was largely vapid, pro-corporate unsustainable globalism. Speakers failed to acknowledge that for poor countries to grow their economies to attain a basic, humane standard of living, degrowth in over-consuming rich countries is required. That is what the science says – stop denying it.
The conference was mainly by and for engineers, yet the ideology promoted – that endless growth on a finite planet is the panacea for all social and environmental ills – is blatantly unscientific and violates the introductory lessons in energy and mass balance we teach to college sophomores.
All this “happy talk” about innovation, efficiency, “green tech,” etc. puts lives in danger. Not the lives of privileged conference attendees (perversely, it boosts our careers), but the lives of poor mostly non-white people around the world. It’s irresponsible and we need to stop it and get serious about accurately describing the risks of status quo un-sustainability and devise strategies for downshifting.
Please do better, E4C.
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Lots of people volunteered their time to pull this off and it turned out well! We brought in many perspectives, including corporate foundations. Wouldn’t have wanted to exclude corporate foundations because of an ideological bias that some attendees hold.
Come back with an open mind next time and you might find something in it that you can appreciate.
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