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The whole week was extremely inspiring. I met a few interesting people and I think I can honestly admit that some things contributed to changing my mind. Since my studies are economically oriented, the topic that could possibly influence my career or just future, would be decoupling. It has already come to my mind that constant growth is implausible and that by striving to keep the growth we advance destroying ourselves. | The whole week was extremely inspiring. I met a few interesting people and I think I can honestly admit that some things contributed to changing my mind. Since my studies are economically oriented, the topic that could possibly influence my career or just future, would be decoupling. It has already come to my mind that constant growth is implausible and that by striving to keep the growth we advance destroying ourselves. | ||
I don't think that economist still use GDP as the only or the most serviceable indicator, but everyone is talking about it like it would be something that could save our lives. We hear about it in tv, radio, we read about it in newspapers and if GDP is not rising, we see ourselves dying from hunger or simply suffering from the lack of money. | I don't think that economist still use GDP as the only or the most serviceable indicator, but everyone is talking about it like it would be something that could save our lives. We hear about it in tv, radio, we read about it in newspapers and if GDP is not rising, we see ourselves dying from hunger or simply suffering from the lack of money. | ||
Now I see more clearly that we should set economic growth and the aggregate conditions on Earth apart. We already have enough technology and knowledge to make ourselves happy and rich, we should find out way how to use these to maintain or even improve our environment so that we can live a long and healthy lives and that we can be happy. | Now I see more clearly that we should set economic growth and the aggregate conditions on Earth apart. We already have enough technology and knowledge to make ourselves happy and rich, we should find out way how to use these to maintain or even improve our environment so that we can live a long and healthy lives and that we can be happy. | ||