Douglas Rushkoff
Field of reference: Sociology
Description: how the work-and-consume culture harmed our relationships.
“Most of us spend so much time working and consuming, that we have very little time and energy left to do anything that has to do with other people … and the more we behave as individual actors in competition with one another, the harder it is to encounter one another in a friendly way."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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Dr. Dan Ariely
Field of reference: Economics, Psychology
Description: Our identity has become entangled with our job.
“most of us understand the deep interconnection between identity and labor… ‘What do you do?’ has become as common a component of an introduction as the anachronistic ‘How do you do?’ once was—suggesting that our jobs are an integral part of our identity, not merely a way to make money…"
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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Richard Heinberg
Field of reference: Economics
Description: Economic growth is over, we have to adopt new values
“We all got hooked on growth. Rising GDP numbers became our main measure of success. ‘More, bigger and faster’ meant ‘better.’”
“We’re all addicted to growth. We all want better jobs and higher returns on investments. But we live on a finite planet.
The end of growth is not the fault of any one politician or a political party, but some people benefited from growth more than others.”
“We can live without economic growth, but we’ll have to start doing a few things differently:
“We have to measure and aim for improvements in life that don’t require increasing our consumption of fossil fuels and other depleting resources, or piling on more debt.
“Freedom, being with the people we love, good health and the time to enjoy it, a secure happy community.”
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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Dr. J.W smith
Field of reference: Economics
Description: The article summarizes the book World's Wasted Wealth II (Institute for Economic Democracy, 1994). The book is full of calculations about uneccessary or non productive jobs in the US as an example.
"This is a total of 37.156 million unnecessary jobs And this is for a throwaway society.
Superfluous consumer products are sold only because of a "created need."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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H. G. Wells
Field of reference: Education
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
| שייך לנושאים: 1-13 - חינוך אינטגרלי, -מקורות מדעיים, משבר, 3. צמצום צריכה |
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