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It's time to think again, to reimagine the shape of progress, because today, we have economies that need to grow, whether or not they make us thrive, and what we need, especially in the richest countries, are economies that make us thrive whether or not they grow.
So here we are, flying into the sunset of mass consumerism over half a century on, with economies that have come to expect, demand and depend upon unending growth, because we're financially, politically and socially addicted to it.
We need to create economies that tackle this shortfall and overshoot together, by design.
We need economies that are regenerative and distributive by design.
We take earth's materials, make them into stuff we want, use it for a while, often only once, and then throw it away, and that is pushing us over planetary boundaries, so we need to bend those arrows around, create economies that work with and within the cycles of the living world, so that resources are never used up but used again and again, economies that run on sunlight, where waste from one process is food for the next.
But as well as being regenerative by design, our economies must be distributive by design, and we've got unprecedented opportunities for making that happen, because 20th-century centralized technologies, institutions, concentrated wealth, knowledge and power in few hands.
Yes, we need to dematerialize our economies, but this dependency on unending growth cannot be decoupled from resource use on anything like the scale required to bring us safely back within planetary boundaries.
It's a phase, but many economies like Ethiopia and Nepal today may be in that phase.
Their economies are growing at seven percent a year.
So why would we imagine that our economies would be the one system that could buck this trend and succeed by growing forever?
And given that projections are that the bulk of economic growth over the next 15 years will come from emerging economies in the developing world, it could easily overtake the United States and become the largest economy in the world.
And third is, and I'm taking this from the great American beat poet Allen Ginsberg, that alternate economies barter and different kinds of currency, alternate currencies are also very important, and he talked about buying what he needed just with his good looks.
And when I look at what is happening to our economies and our societies, my single conclusion is that we ain't seen nothing yet.
Economies don't run on energy.
They get their inspiration, their hope, their practical know-how, from successful emerging economies in the South.
It creates economies of scale, significant and long-term resource investment, the expertise of many different kinds of people and different kinds of minds, and for individuals, consumers, it's bringing the standards, rules and recourse that we really want as consumers, and this is kind of bound up in a brand promise, and the companies are providing this on a platform for participation.
And that is, why is it that countries with seemingly similar economies and institutions can display radically different savings behavior?
A lot of people say now that business will lift up the developing economies, and social business will take care of the rest.
Now that's all very important, but what I want to talk about is what preschool does for state economies and for promoting state economic development.
And the trouble with that objection, it reflects a total misunderstanding of how much local economies involve everyone being interdependent.
The economies of the future depend on that.
Our economies in the developed world have coasted along on something pretty close to full employment.
The third thing, and this is what worries me the most, is the extent to which those same largely positive forces which are driving the rise of the global plutocracy also happen to be hollowing out the middle class in Western industrialized economies.
For all that it is raising hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the emerging markets, it's also outsourcing a lot of jobs from the developed Western economies.
Yet we were able to manage malaria and reduce HIV and reduce diarrheal diseases in places with awful economies without healing the economy.
Today, the United States and China are the two leading economies in the world.
Over two decades ago, the world insisted to Africa that markets must be liberalized, that economies must be structurally adjusted.
In these cities, the impact of architecture in people's lives of today and tomorrow changes the local communities and economies at the same speed as the buildings grow.
And most medical devices, we've learned, as we've dug in, are really designed for Westerners, for wealthier economies.
This layering of spaces and economies is very interesting to notice.
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