La nature, l'écologie et l'économie: Une approche antiutilitariste
- Autores: Serge Latouche
- Localización: Theomai: estudios sobre sociedad, naturaleza y desarrollo, ISSN-e 1515-6443, Nº. 4, 2001
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
From the economic and utilitarian point of view, the environmental problem is, in the last analysis, due to the fact for nature to remain ouside the exchange mercantile sphere. No mechanism can oppose its destruction. The competition and market economy have disastrous effects on the environment. Nothing can limit the plundering of natural resource, an activity which, in its excess, guarantees profit and economic efficiency. By adopting the model of the Newtonian classical mechanics, economics excludes the irreversibility of time. The economic models develop in a mechanistic and reversible time. The consequence is an unconscious waste of scarce resources and an underutilisation of the Earth's abundant solar energy. The waste and pollution produced by economic activities are not part of the normal functions of production. The accounting of negative externalities made by the economists can be considered positively, but the concept itself of externality shows that it deals with a problem which is normally ignored by the mercantile logic. In fact, it is still within the economic rationality. What it finally implies within the economic framework is that the environmental crisis eventually leads to the solidification of the "productivist" ethos of technocratic society via its need to solve problems. From an anti-utilitarian point of view, only the political taking account of the problem can allow an issue
