Book Review Small Is Beautiful
Small is Beautiful by E.F Schumacher is a must read for anyone concerned with recreating a world economy that places people before profits. Small is Beautiful, written in 1973 created a humanistic economics movement with a wholistic approach containing ethical, ecological, and metaphysical components that are missing from the statistical models that solely measure GNP. Schumacher sounded the alarm regarding globalization when asking "how much further 'growth' will be possible, since infinate growth in a finite environment is an obvious impossibility". He was critical of a society that generates unbounded materialism, and motivated by greed and envy. And he was before his time is sounding the alarm for the need to re-think and re-structure our society around economical models that acted as if people mattered. A great book that is both funny and very matter of the fact, I highly recommend this book for anyone seeking solutions to moving beyond war.
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1. How have you tried to lessen your environmental footprint on the planet? Have you tried reducing your dependence on certain products or resources like oil or plastic?
2. How might your role in reducing your economic footprint on the world lea to lasting peace globally?
3. Are there ways in which you and your community can get involved in helping the community at large begin to reduce its economic footprint and its environmental footprint by becoming more self sufficient and sustainable?
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