In the EU, "Is this the end of end-of-waste?", re the Circular Economy in 2020

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344919305622?dgcid=raven_sd_recommender_email

At the link above, there's a brief review of the status of the end-of-waste policy in the EU.  End-of-waste is a crucial concept in the whole idea of the Circular Economy.  The EU is having a problem with implementation of the concept.  The authors of the article, Johansson and Forsgren, suggest a new approach involving the "space between waste and products".

[NOTE:  I've used this blogger venue for a bit over thirteen years.  Sometimes it allows active links to be posted, and other times the reader (you) has to copy the link here and then manually post it on a new page.  As far as I know, I have no control over which type of link posts here, i.e., an "active" one or a "copy & paste" one.  I suspect that Google only allows active links for those which go to sites owned by Google (e.g., YouTube), but I really don't know.  Point being:  apologies for all the "copy & paste" links in these posts; I can't do anything about it.]

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Complete Bioeconomics & Degrowth Look Like This

 Most of the Bioeconomics of today is not that of Georgescu-Roegen, the founder of the concept.  Why?  Because the "updated", new century versions are incomplete, and they seem to eschew "degrowth".  There's much more to bioeconomics than just bioenergy, which seems to be the main (or only) focus today.  Plus, the original bioeconomics promoted the idea of degrowth.

In the article below, the ecological and political economist, Giorgos Kallis (one of today's leading champions of degrowth), presents specific policies which would make possible a thriving society without economic growth.

https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/can-we-prosper-without-growth-10-policy-proposals/

Are some of these policies "radical"?  Frankly, yes; but that's the approach needed if we are to get through the ongoing Social-Ecological Crisis now upon us.  If we are to survive and thrive, we must discard the Edward Bernays style propaganda to which we've been subjected for decades.  The neoclassical/neoliberal economists have bamboozled us.

Unlimited Growth + Overconsumption + Inequality + Materialism = a rat race which is destroying not only our habitat, but us as well.  A paradigm shift in Ethics is in order.  Common sense and empirical evidence scream for it.  The main obstacle appears to be the sacrosanct vision of constant, perpetual Growth.

Tick-tock.

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Not only my opinion.  Be Well