I think our relationship with the world, from which we get natural resources, we're going to have to think more and more of ourselves, as a subsystem, a part of the natural world and that we depend upon it in two ways: we'll have to take from the natural world resources at a rate at which the natural world can regenerate and we'll have to throw back the wastes from using those natural resources at a rate the natural world can assimilate and reconstitute and make use of. So, we have two limits on the natural world, on the scale and the scope of our activity, you might say the source limit (how fast we take things out) and the sink limit (how fast we throw things back in.)
08.05.2007,
I thought that The di CAprio project was great, but this is much more interesting, shame that is not well known. Promote it!!!My best compliment!
Micaela, 13.03.2008 10:09:07
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Herman E. Daly is an ecological economist and professor at the Maryland School of Public Affairs. Prior to his work at the Maryland School of Public Affairs, he worked at the World Bank, where he was Senior Economist in the Environment Department, helping to develop policy guidelines related to sustainable development. While there, he was engaged in environmental operations work in Latin America. He is co-founder and associate editor of the journal, Ecological Economics. His interest in economic development, population, resources, and environment has resulted in over a hundred articles as well as numerous books. His awards include the Grawemeyer Award for ideas for improving World Order, of the Honorary Right Livelihood Award, the Heineken Prize for Environmental Science from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Sophie Prize awarded by Norway.
