http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-economic-valuation/ Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-economic-valuation/#comment-5169 gene denardo Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:42:03 +0000 http://blog.onwardoregon.org/an-economic-valuation/#comment-5169 Great observations! There is a group of economists, and i think Paul Hawken is one of the mainstays[not sure], who believe that true economics and ecology are the same thing. The words are the same, eco meaning house[greek] and ology and nomics both relating to the study of. What they also believe is that the economy cannot truly reflect the environment anytime humans[government, controlling interest, corporations] step in and change the actual 'value' of resources or the natural world with subsidies, financial intervention, etc. In other words, we would naturally conserve or economize the physical environment if artificial 'economics' weren't introduced into the equation. A good example is that if 'big oil' wasn't subsidized, we would already be using more suitable alternatives without having to legislate or institutionalize those. The contradiction to this tho is that it is 'humans' who are responsible for these interventions and favorable treatments so we are back at square one! Great observations! There is a group of economists, and i think Paul Hawken is one of the mainstays[not sure], who believe that true economics and ecology are the same thing. The words are the same, eco meaning house[greek] and ology and nomics both relating to the study of. What they also believe is that the economy cannot truly reflect the environment anytime humans[government, controlling interest, corporations] step in and change the actual ‘value’ of resources or the natural world with subsidies, financial intervention, etc. In other words, we would naturally conserve or economize the physical environment if artificial ‘economics’ weren’t introduced into the equation. A good example is that if ‘big oil’ wasn’t subsidized, we would already be using more suitable alternatives without having to legislate or institutionalize those. The contradiction to this tho is that it is ‘humans’ who are responsible for these interventions and favorable treatments so we are back at square one!

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