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| category | date | draft | posttype | slug | title |
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| [2 sustainability environment economics] | 2021-02-23 15:15:02 | false | note | 60351bf6 | note |
Recently I watched a Netflix documentary 'David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet.' Following that, I read his book as well. I love that he sites lots of examples of human impacts on Earth as well as success stories of cities and countries in achieving bewildering their lands and seas.
The author introduces policies, concepts and frameworks that can help the sustainability revolution. Particularly, the Doughnut Model by an Oxford economist Kate Raworth was intriguing. She published a book about it ('Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist') which I would love to read. I watched her TED talk which was very inspiring. I wish I had such a lecture when I was studying economics in Okayama!
TED talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BHOflzxPjI
Coincidentally, I learnt from the internet search that Amsterdam has become the first city to use the model as a guide to rebuild the city that is suffering from the COVID-19. It is very exciting to see such a big city to take a bold action! I hope they will deliver good results and will be followed by others.
The Guardian article on Amsterdam: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/amsterdam-doughnut-model-mend-post-coronavirus-economy?CMP=share_btn_tw