Spiritual Ecology with Satish Kumar
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4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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In this interview we hear from Satish Kumar: former monk, author, editor of Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine, long-time peace & environmental activist, founder of Schumacher College, and TED Talk alumnus. We spoke about going upstream, the fallacies of economic growth & consumption, the principles of Buddhist and Gandhian economics, what a real sharing economy looks like, and dream time.
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| 0:12.0 | Oh. You are listening to an upstream interview, which is part of the Economics for Transition Project. |
| 0:39.0 | Today we're joined by Satish Kumar, a long time peace and environmental activist, the author of several books on spirituality, activism, and ecology, the editor of Resurgents and Ecologist magazine and the founder of Schumacher College. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome Satish. |
| 1:02.0 | Pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:04.0 | Is there anything else you'd like to say by way of introduction? |
| 1:07.0 | I think what you have said is perfect. |
| 1:10.0 | One of my background in economics is that I was inspired by the economics of Mahatma Gandhi and I worked in the Gandhian movement in India so I have some Gandhian and Buddhist |
| 1:27.3 | background. And so there is a field called Gandhian economics. |
| 1:33.2 | Yes. |
| 1:34.2 | What does that mean? |
| 1:35.2 | For someone who's never heard of it, what does that entail? |
| 1:37.4 | Gandhian economics is economics of permanence, like permaculture idea. So economics which does not go linear from taking, using and throwing away. |
| 1:50.0 | But economics which is cyclical. |
| 1:53.0 | So it's a lasting economy. |
| 1:56.0 | Economy is not only for 50 years or 100 years or 500 years, |
| 2:01.0 | economy should be such that it can last for millions of years. If you have to have |
| 2:05.9 | something which lasts for millions of years, it has to be permanent economy. So economics of |
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