Comments on: Ecology and Economy https://cascadiasolidarity.org/ecology-and-economy/ Common Good. Common Ground. Common Sense Mon, 08 May 2023 03:02:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Kathleen Lange https://cascadiasolidarity.org/ecology-and-economy/#comment-171 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 14:39:48 +0000 https://cascadiasolidarity.org/?p=110#comment-171 It seems that currently we have Dorothy Sayers “society based on waste and trash”. Without the support and interest to measure an “economy” of flourishing people and families, (which may indeed have less to do with material wealth and more to do with relationships and community), we are left with exploitation of people and the environment, an immoral and growing wealth gap and increasing dissatisfaction in people’s lives.

Focus on flourishing families and communities may be helpful. It can be difficult to define “flourishing” and tempting to attribute causality to specific qualities that may only correlate. As individuals and communities start to consider economic systems outside of capitalism and growing material wealth, perhaps there can be measurable value of strong families and communities that live gently in our environment and support the common good.

]]> By: Matthew McNatt https://cascadiasolidarity.org/ecology-and-economy/#comment-163 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:31:20 +0000 https://cascadiasolidarity.org/?p=110#comment-163 Indeed! There can be no larger economy without basic household management. Likewise, there can be no sense to economics as a discipline, if economics becomes unmoored from the propagation of human life, beginning in the family.

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