Myth of a techno fix?
Here’s a link to Jevon’s Paradox. Anyone from economics studied this? Seems like a sobering perspective on the so called technological fix to reducing our consumption or rate of consumption of material resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevon%27s_paradox
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1 George Rahi { 10.08.10 at 3:53 pm }
Yeah, this is something I was surprised wasn’t covered by the Steady-State lecture, as many people who support “de-growth” refer to it.
Noam Chomsky once said, “It is difficult to take seriously arguments about efficiency in a society that devotes enormous resources to waste and destruction. As everyone knows, the very concept of efficiency is dripping with ideology”.
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