Tag: decrescita
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Diritti della natura (o Pacha Mama)
Capítulo séptimo Derechos de la naturaleza Art. 71.- La naturaleza o Pacha Mama, donde se reproduce y realiza la vida, tiene derecho a que se respete integralmente su existencia y el mantenimiento y regeneración de sus ciclos vitales, estructura, funciones y procesos evolutivos. Toda persona, comunidad, pueblo o nacionalidad podrá exigir a la autoridad pública…
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Bollire una società
Here is how to boil a frog. Place the frog in a pan of tepid water. Raise the temperature so gradually that the frog does not realize it is being cooked. It may even fall into a stupor, as a person might in a hot bath. Eventually it will die. According to experiments done in…
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Controproducenti
Sadly, malaria is making a comeback in many parts of the Third World, due partly to insecticide-resistant mosquitoes and partly to complacency and political disintegration. Irrigation projects such as dams, reservoirs, and irrigation canals often work well in temperate climates. However, in tropical regions, they may backfire. They create large bodies of stationary water that…
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Estetica post-picco
But what will the human-made world look like a few decades beyond Peak Oil? Will we see a fulfillment of the Arts and Crafts ideal? It would be nice to think so. However, the world in which Morris and his colleagues lived and worked — including the cultural symbols, the skills, even in some cases…
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Attrezzi
La cassetta degli attrezzi dell’economista è stata progettata proprio nella fase ascendente della disponibilità abbondante di energia fossile, caso unico nella storia dell’uomo, e oggi non si rivela più adeguata a gestire la fase di scarsità. (Luca Mercalli, Prepariamoci, 2011)
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Moralità
I said, “I can name for you something that is good, no matter what stories we tell ourselves.” “And it is…” I held up my glass. “Drinkable quantities of clean water.” “I don’t understand.” “Drinkable quantities of clean water are unqualifiedly a good thing, no matter the stories we tell ourselves.” She got it. She…
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Effetti del clima sull’ingegnosità umana
Other, lesser social changes may trace their origins to the Year Without a Summer. A New Scientist article published in 2005 argues convincingly that the velocipede, the ancestor of the modern bicycle, was developed in the aftermath of 1816’s failed grain harvests as a means of transportation that didn’t need to be fed (unlike horses). Dall’Anno Senza…
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Almeno ci avremo provato
Venerdì prossimo, a partire da alcune proiezioni (in Creative Commons *) cercherò di introdurre i problemi del picco energetico e dei cambiamenti climatici e di stimolare la discussione. Maggiori informazioni qui. * Tra le altre cose, alcuni talk provenienti da TED e già pubblicati qui. Ma vederli o rivederli in compagnia fa un altro effetto,…
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Tempismo
Nel novembre 2005 iniziai a seguire, fin dalla sua apertura, il blog Petrolio di Debora Billi. Fu il mio primo contatto in assoluto con il tema del picco delle risorse energetiche e minerali. A partire dai suoi post, cominciai a documentarmi, fino a sfruttare l’occasione irripetibile di avere quasi sotto casa il V congresso mondiale…
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Derivati agricoli
The notion of progress is a creation of agriculture. I can’t prove it, because the idea of progress is too deeply burned into us to be extracted and examined. It is our secular religion. […] The political system cannot be counted on to reform agriculture because the political system is a creation of agriculture, a…