The Blue Economy.mov

Do you want to live healthy, and have joy in life?
Do you want to be an entrepreneur, and figure out how you can make a difference?
This is not about the good and the bad, this is about how you can do it better.

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Howto & Style

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• Gunter Pauli
• ZERI
• Green Economy
• palm oil
• solar energy
• health diet

[desmond56367]

@gunterpauli , i m not convinced it is possible to meet present needs - food, water, housing, sanitation, basic healthcare etc without growth.

[gunterpauli]

@desmond56367 It is possible to respond to the basic needs with a DIFFERENT growth than the one we have known until today.

[desmond56367]

Well presented without an irritating soundtrack. What is the position with regards growth and ensuring 100% efficiency?

[gunterpauli]

@desmond56367 The issue is not to grow - or not to grow. The issue is can we respond to the basic needs of all with what we have. And the answer is yes we can. Then the question is does this hamper growth, all depends on how you measure it but with over a billion people missing water, food, housing, energy, health care ... if we respond to their needs there will be a lot of qualitative growth, as the video on Las Gaviotas posted shows

[danndan6]

This doesn't take into account that when you recycle, people buy less and thus the economy is harmed

[gunterpauli]

@danndan6 The Blue Economy is recycling while adding value, replacing unsustainable solutions. Instead of composing coffee waste, you grow mushrooms, generating food, and the waste is great animal feed.

[gunterpauli]

@DD99able

Thanks for watching and commenting, most appreciated. It is a challenge to find out what is the least bad: local non-organic food or internationally traded organic? All I suggest in this video is that we have to go beyond good or bad, we have to imagine much better than we have today and not only justify what we have achieved. Rather, let us stand on the shoulders of the great pioneers that have come before us and go way beyond. Agree?

[desmond56367]

@gunterpauli, i 'm convinced by the arguements for a steady state economy - that the economy can be made more efficient and can be downscaled to within a state of equilibrium with nature but even then it is not going to be able to meet even present needs. Is there another type of growth?

[almodob]

I love the FX with the hand and the fingers moving the graphics in the video

[Emsee2009]

Well done! Instructive.

[gunterpauli]

@boonhod Sorry that you thought this is about the ocean. It goes beyond the oceans. There is a major difference that the Blue Economy takes a systems approach that permits to have the commons reinstated, that means that the best for you and the environment is cheap (in the green economy it is expensive) and that the necessary for life (like water) is free.