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Politics of Scarcity versus Technological Optimism: A Possible Reconciliation?
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In the view of the technological optimist, scarcity is a "normal" reaction which results from faulty social policy and inadequate RD its social and political impact would be extensive and must be assessed as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
Given the fact that modern political societies assume the necessity of economic growth, solutions must then be found for the resulting problem of scarcity. In the view of the technological optimist, scarcity is a "normal" reaction which results from faulty social policy and inadequate RD its social and political impact would be extensive and must be assessed.read more
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Reports to the Club of Rome
TL;DR: The Club of Rome was formed to publicize the contemporary human predicament, an unprecedented social pathology which, according to founder Aurelio Peccei, “is aggravated by the interrelatedness of everything in the human system.” The Club has commissioned and accepted nine reports, the first and most famous of which is Limits to Growth (1972) as discussed by the authors.
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2010,16: Consumer needs and their satiation properties as drivers of the rebound effect : the case of energy-efficient washing machines
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the rebound effect to energy efficiency progress is a special case of behavioral reactions to technological change more in general, and that rebound effects will only occur as long as the consumer needs appealed to by the product are not yet satiated.
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Soviet official critiques of the resource scarcity prediction by limits to growth report: the case of Evgenii Fedorov’s ecological crisis rhetoric
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on official Soviet attitudes towards the ecological crisis and the rhetoric developed to address it, in particular the discussions in the Soviet Union that followed the 1989 economic crisis.
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Reducing Asymmetries in Intergenerational Justice: Descent from Modernity or Space Industrialization?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the late modern society has created an asymmetry because of its unprecendented instrumental and destructive capacity, and propose two political strategies to end it.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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The Tragedy of the Commons
TL;DR: The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.