Schedule 9th International Degrowth Conference

The analysis is mainly based on the contributions of ethics and bioeconomics of N. Georgescu- Roegen, and on the identification of the components of a new ethics that I call bioeconomic ethics. Bioeconomics ethics is an ethics of limits which is based on interdependencies, qualitative changes and dissipation of matter-energy resources. It is founded by a main principle of interdependence which supports a strong solidarity between humankind and the biosphere, a kind of symbiotic solidarity. Combining this principle with the principle of maximizing the life of the species under ecological constraints and the principle of minimizing future regrets, we found that the economic process is bounded by ecological and ethical constraints within planetary boundaries.
Furthermore, bioeconomic ethics can provide us with original elements of analysis to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene. The concern for others - intra and intergenerational equity - combined with the need to do with less - sufficiency - projects bioeconomic ethics towards the
exercise of justice of a global nature where the distribution of goods and environmental ills is a condition necessary for the survival of humanity. Finally, bioeconomic ethics can bring a broader vision of the relationship to nature (interdependencies; co-evolution paths) through an historical time and complying with a global justice. It can also contribute to design bioeconomic policies for the Anthropocene by linking justice and ecological goals, by building nature conservation strategies focusing on interdependencies and defining evolution paths for slowing down and downscaling the economic process.

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Day: 2023-08-30
Start time: 12:45
Duration: 00:15
Room: ZV-8-1
Type: Paper Presentation
Theme: Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon

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