Jon Erickson: "Illusions, Power and the Political Economy"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Illusion of Choice
Mr. Kahn's theory of small choices idea where we could embed the decisions of the past and make changes to them? Right. It requires the ability to make collective choices, to do comprehensive planning, right? To have a little bit of foresight, which is what we do very often in ecological economics. And if people are given the opportunity to think outside their own kind of individual consumptive choice or their own individual life,. they say no, that's not the future I want. So this is the economical equivalent of the ocean ecological concept of shifting baselines.
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