Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

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Produced by the Center for a New American Dream

This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (http://www.julietschor.org).

Animation by Squid and Beard: http://www.squidandbeard.com

Learn more at http://www.newdream.org

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• center
• new
• american
• dream
• plenitude
• juliet
• schor
• economy
• sustainability
• environment
• happiness

[antoinem01]

As a true dutchman: It is still working as we speak. Check out the CIA statistics on the Netherlands and re-evaluate your comments.

BTW - love these drawings!

[pinayinperu]

a better solution to the +economic and +environmental problems than growth. Happiness and +humandevelopment is possible without polluting our environment

[MorbidDirector]

Genious!!

[LEDCircus]

Hemp based fuel and plastics can completely replace the use of Oil in our economy, but the big Corporations and the Government make too much money from Fossil Fuels to even think about an alternative long term solution. It's infuriating to be honest and I'm sick of it.

[theawesomebeliever]

Bullshit, this was actually predicted in 1870,s with the birth of socialism where according to their "studies" we would have ran out of ressources already in the 1950's

The reason for the job loss is statism interfearing on business and the advancement of technologies, NOT the lack of ressources.

Gosh those politically oriented people are so retarded.

[IHighLikePlane]

If you are interested in this, look into a Resource Based Economy and/or watch Zeitgeist Moving Forward.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

This is feasible in an intentional community populated by largely like-minded people. You can't force this mode of living on everyone. What we need now is the machinery to plant real-world settlements like this in the United States on a national scale. We need a lobby to change zoning laws, and a development company that buys land, subdivides it, assumes risk, and uses volume discount and contract services people need to build their own homesteads.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

@bladder1010 I wonder if your grandfather or great-grandfather thought working his own farm or his own business was easy? The monopolistic and oligarchic state of modern economies is unnatural and it is doomed to fail. A mode of economic production which is linear rather than circular is doomed to fail. Central economies will fail, whether they are corporatist or state-planned. Attempts to introduce perpetual slavery and servitude will fail over time, because they are inimical to God's will.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

The central problem with this is that some people think they are too good to live this way. They believe that anyone who tills the soil, or works with an animal, or does manual labor of any kind is a slave. Men and women who fancy themselves masters of others have been the problem with civilization all along, but we wait to root out the evil among us until it's too late.

[BooGooNFlowoo4Evoo]

What's more likely is a huge man-made disaster that kills the surplus population. The destructive growth models return in force, and the robber-barons that are left battle each other again for supremacy. Why the recurring theme in human history of people entering an unpopulated land? The land was never virgin, not since out of Africa or Adam and Eve, whichever you believe. The people simply died or left it, whether from calamity, or from cupidity, or from an ill marriage of both.

[gulbirk]

People should view economy and politics as any other aspect of life. Try finding a practical sollution to the problems, instead of constantly seeking an ideology and only picking options that cope with that ideology.

[nschnell23]

This is spectacular, thank you.