Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Economic crisis vs. The Ecologic crisis

ZARAGOZA, SPAIN - JUNE 13: Guests arrive for t...Image by Getty Images via @daylifeOkay, I know everybody heard enough of this topic to be sick of it, but I have to say that most of the articles that are on this topic, only tell us about the consequences of the economic crisis. Here I will tell you my opinion on this interesting and intriguing topic.
Well, we all know that the economic crisis hit the whole world, and this is because the loan-based economy worked, that banks gave way to much money and things did not went well, but I tend to think otherwise. Just give it a thought, as Tim Jackson said :
Our economy is :
“Spend money we don`t have, on things we don`t need, to create impressions that will not last on people we don`t care about” (link).
What this means exactly ? It means that a lot of people, want to get rich, to have better lives, and this is quite normal, all human beings aspire for a better life, but the problem is how you achieve it… In this new industrial hype (which happens mostly in the developing countries) a lot of business owners decided to cut a lot of major and important corners in order to make a big profit a lot faster, they decided to leave out concepts like “Sustainable Development” , “Waste Recycle”, “Energy Efficiency” and a lot more other important business and management concepts, which are not only greener, but if they correctly applied to almost any business, they generate more profit and less losses, but this is in the long run…  
Yes, in the long run, and this is one of the most important reasons that the economic crisis happened, because of the people that wanted to get rich over night, without respecting the rules of management, durability etc…
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 28: Simon Little, the ...Image by Getty Images via @daylifeWell, now you say that if a person does not think and is a bad manager he will go out of business, and you are right, but, let me ask you what happens when to many people go out of business in the same time ? What happens with all the employees they had ? Exactly,  they go home, and nothing happens… they lose their job , by loosing their job they can not afford to pay the loans, bills, and suddenly, other companies go out of business … and this is a chain reaction that led to the economic crises.
If you want to understand more, and what the ecological implications of the ecologic crises are in the economic crises are, I advise you to go and watch a great Ted Talk of Tim Jackson (link)…

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