How Long will Business as Usual be Sustained?

Dandy, Norman

doi:10.3197/096327121x16141642287610

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“…Things have changed very little:Weak forms of sustainability abound, from ‘moral’ justifications for fossil fuel extraction based on financial values to dominant theological traditions to continued human exceptionalism. Despite many decades of evidence and thought relating to environmental degradation and its myriad costs, it appears that minor adjustments to dominant ideas and practices are still the norm across much of global society (Dandy, 2021, 145).Digital technologies began to spread among the general public by the end of the 90s and the idea of progress returned. Again, to promote computer networks and technological developments, there was a need to resurrect a religion to justify social, technological and political attention.…”

Section: From the Religion Of Progress To The Religion Of Digital Tec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Weak forms of sustainability abound, from ‘moral’ justifications for fossil fuel extraction based on financial values to dominant theological traditions to continued human exceptionalism. Despite many decades of evidence and thought relating to environmental degradation and its myriad costs, it appears that minor adjustments to dominant ideas and practices are still the norm across much of global society (Dandy, 2021, 145).…”

Section: From the Religion Of Progress To The Religion Of Digital Tec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The city of god revisited: Digitalism as a new technological religion

Alonso,

Arzoz

2024

Environmental Values

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A Religion of Progress has taken shape over the last 21 centuries, from the Enlightenment to present times. It is quite simple to follow a thread from Hermeticism to today, however, several facts have altered its content, therefore, reformulating some of its promises and vision of the world. This paper attempts to evaluate how that Religion of Progress has become a sort of Techno-Hermeticism 2.0. Digital technologies have redefined old hermetic myths into a high-tech religion with dire environmental consequencies. Some of those myths are the resurrection of the bodies, the construction of the City of God, the Adamic universal language and so forth. Now religion must confront the upcoming collapse, however, it is unable to provide satisfactory answers. This goes for all the different churches, from accelerationists (Nick Land) to extinctionists and believers of digital solutionism. That leaves possible imaginative responses to that sociecological crisis without any relevant proposals.

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Section: From the Religion Of Progress To The Religion Of Digital Tec...mentioning

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Section: From the Religion Of Progress To The Religion Of Digital Tec...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The city of god revisited: Digitalism as a new technological religion

Alonso,

Arzoz

2024

Environmental Values

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“…The Brundtland Report, released in 1987, has pushed forward the issue of sustainable development-meeting present needs without compromising the needs of future generations [81]. The urgency of the matter has led to questions and reflections on how long the current economic paradigm of business can be sustained as usual and what we can do to move beyond it [82][83][84][85].…”

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Mass Cultivation of Microalgae III: A Philosophical and Economic Exploration of Carbon Capture and Utilization

Andersson,

Stokke,

Agwu

et al. 2023

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This article discusses an innovative carbon capture and utilization project from societal, economic, and ethical perspectives. UiT—The Arctic University of Norway and the ferrosilicon producer Finnfjord AS, both located in Northern Norway, collaborate to develop sustainably produced fish feed by cultivating microalgae (diatoms) that feed on CO2 from the factory fume. The microalgae biomass, when added to fish feed applied in the aquaculture industry, contributes nutrients that are essential to human and fish health. The project carries the potential to contribute to the operationalization of the Sustainable Development Goals. The present study is intended as a contribution to the literature focusing on CO2 utilization as a means of achieving a sustainable “green” transition in the industry. By viewing the utilization of CO2 through the lenses of biotechnology, a circular economy, ethics and philosophy, our research findings are relevant to sustainability scholars, industrial actors, and policy makers. It also presents future perspectives on how the aquaculture and manufacturing industries can contribute to the operationalizing of the Sustainable Development Goals in a rapidly evolving industrial environment that is now undergoing a paradigm shift.

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“…Our world is undergoing a multidimensional crisis (ecology, economy, care, climate, politics, ethics, energy, etc. ), a world that surely won't be able to sustain business as usual for long (Dandy, 2021). To describe this new scenario of a general overshooting of planetary boundaries (Steffen et al, 2015), some have proposed adopting the notion of the Anthropocene (Steffen et al, 2011).…”

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A socio-historical ontology of technics: Beyond technology

Almazán

2024

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Ours are Days of Decision and it's indispensable to transform our technics. For it, we must abandon the inherited conception of technics based on neutrality and autonomy. To this end, in this article we develop a socio-historical ontology for technics that argues: (a) To understand technics we have to take into consideration technical objects, handling, and the degree of guidance of the animal user. (b) Each technics is inseparable from its society. (c) The idea of a free use of technics is illusory. There are always unexpected impacts and various uses of a given technics. (d) Technologies of the Capitalocene are imperial. (e) Technologies have acquired a destructive inertia and we have the obligation to understand technological development as a political phenomenon. (f) In order to go beyond the Capitalocene and advance towards Degrowth, we have to move from imperial technologies to humble technics.

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How Long will Business as Usual be Sustained?

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

The city of god revisited: Digitalism as a new technological religion

The city of god revisited: Digitalism as a new technological religion

Mass Cultivation of Microalgae III: A Philosophical and Economic Exploration of Carbon Capture and Utilization

A socio-historical ontology of technics: Beyond technology

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