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To advance sustainability, fight inequality, researcher says
- carsongross 10y agoThere was a whole school of economic thought around the idea of widely distributed ownership and the family (as the organic, root institution of sustainability) that died in the conflagration of WW2, called Distributism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism This, along with populism (Texas-style, pre-1900) and Georgism are historical economic movements with interesting things to say about the world today that have sadly been largely memory-holed.
- mc32 10y agoAt what scale does equality lead to sustainability? At the family, neighborhood, local, state, national, hemispherical, global levels? In other words, does equality have to apply across the board, or can it have effect at more local levels?
- philipjames 10y agoThis research is flawed. There is a connection between social and environmental sustainability, but they do not work independent from one another. What we know is, the most environmentally sustainable cities, are also the most equal. This has to do with a 'culture', or less corruption, more collaboration, and governments that work. If you want to improve sustainability, it starts in the culture. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-should-come-first-environmental-social-philip-beere https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-should-come-first-enviro...
- philipjames 10y agoThis research is flawed. There is a connection between social and environmental sustainability, but they do not work independent from one another. What we know is, the most environmentally sustainable cities, are also the most equal. This has to do with a 'culture', or less corruption, more collaboration, and governments that work. If you want to improve sustainability, it starts in the culture. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-should-come-first-environmental-social-philip-beere https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-should-come-first-enviro...