Inside Barefoot Economics

Kletzka, Patrick

doi:10.30819/5346

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“…And so, each drive has a counterpart in the environment by which it can be satisfied. This external counterpart to an internal need is called a satisfier [47,48].…”

Section: Life Sentience and Plasticitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Max-Neef and colleagues argue [47], the different needs are fundamentally interactive and interrelated and should thus be seen as a complex system, which also means that satisfiers, that is, the objects of desire, can satisfy more than one need at a time [47,48,120]. A popular example is bottle feeding in comparison to breast feeding.…”

Section: Needs Drives and Attentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating the Biocosmos: Cornerstones of a Bioeconomic Utopia

Onyeali,

Schlaile,

Winkler

2023

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One important insight from complexity science is that the future is open, and that this openness is an opportunity for us to participate in its shaping. The bioeconomy has been part of this process of “future-making”. But instead of a fertile ecosystem of imagined futures, a dry monoculture of ideas seems to dominate the landscape, promising salvation through technology. With this article, we intend to contribute to regenerating the ecological foundations of the bioeconomy. What would it entail if we were to merge with the biosphere instead of machines? To lay the cornerstones of a bioeconomic utopia, we explore the basic principles of self-organization that underlie biological, ecological, social, and psychological processes alike. All these are self-assembling and self-regulating elastic structures that exist at the edge of chaos and order. We then revisit the Promethean problem that lies at the foundation of bioeconomic thought and discuss how, during industrialization, the principles of spontaneous self-organization were replaced by the linear processes of the assembly line. We ultimately propose a bioeconomy based on human needs with the household as the basic unit: the biocosmos. The biocosmos is an agroecological habitat system of irreducible complexity, a new human niche embedded into the local ecosystem.

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“…And so, each drive has a counterpart in the environment by which it can be satisfied. This external counterpart to an internal need is called a satisfier [47,48].…”

Section: Life Sentience and Plasticitymentioning

confidence: 99%