The Sytem of National Accountas used by the UN to mesure the annual income of countries hardly takes into account any environmental factors and particularly the degradation of human and environmental capital the reuslt of the operation of capitalist markets.
Category Archives: Former issues
The eco-trap and the abolition of the North
Most of the participants of the ecological debate pretend that the mere repetition of slogans like "sustainable development" will lead to a mor epresent future. To reach a more liveliable ecological condition, however, the global society needs to abolish its inequalities. First of all the North must be prevented to dominate the agricultural territories of the South.
Alternative economic indicators
A number of initiatives have been made by leading economists and ecological movements to replace the outdated measurement of national incomes. Here are introductions to five of these indicators.
Discipline and recycling
A history of recycling under state socialism in Hungary. The political importance of collecting and using waste is immense though its forms are changing according to the evolution of the regime. Their own way even hardline communists cared about the ecology.
Ecological socialism and human needs
Two American theoreticians discuss how socialist and ecological goals can be combined. How can we use our resources in a more economical way? Do cars and shopping malls really constitute human needs?