> .. this is not just moving from one kind of consumerism to another. This is a kind of spiritual renewal and also a material renewal, that—in which we turn ourselves toward an economy that’s sustainable, that’s life-giving, both for humanity and the rest of the world.
#LewisMumford writes of a new #LifeEconomy ,and that with #surplus we get the #obligation to #create no to #consume #TheBasisOfRenewal
#TheBasisOfRenewal #consume #create #obligation #surplus #LifeEconomy #LewisMumford
> ... the ecological crisis and the debt crisis have everything to do with another... debts are, basically, promises of future productivity.
> The prospect of mass debt cancellation provides us with a unique opportunity to turn that democratic impulse towards a fundamental transformation of values, and towards a genuinely viable accommodation with the earth.
- https://davidgraeber.org/articles/after-the-jubilee/
#DavidGraeber #Debt #Jubilee #DynamicEquilibrium #LewisMumford #TheConditionOfMan #TheBasisOfRenewal
#TheBasisOfRenewal #TheConditionOfMan #LewisMumford #DynamicEquilibrium #jubilee #debt #davidgraeber