… we should clarify that it is only materialist growth – growth that consumes non-renewable material and energy resources and pollutes our planet – that needs either a steady state or preferably a reduction. By contrast other growth that enhances our human quality of life as distinct from quantity is highly desirable and we should emphasise this.
Enhancement of our emotional intelligence and our skills and knowledge for fostering all kinds of ecosystems will be an essential economic growth area. Learning to manage our routine cultural evolution as a unified species on this Earth will be a major educational growth area. A shift to localism in material production will decentralise much of the ongoing smaller-scale materialist economic culture and will support our rediscovery of the pleasure of authentic human relationships and of being personally recognised for our contribution as the central meaning of our lives.
No doubt you are aware of books such as James Bradfield MOODY & Bianca NOGRADY THE SIXTH WAVE: How to Succeed in a Resource-Limited World 2010 paper 311pp Vintage Random House Sydney which covers quite a few of these points.
Source: Social Developers’ Network (SDN)
& Nurturing Evolutionary Development (N.E.D.) Foundation