What do the words economy and ecology have in common? What can coral reefs teach us about world governance? What can we do to push for a better future on a healthy planet?
🎙️ In today’s episode of the Global Citizen podcast, we’re joined by Arthur Dahl, president of the International Environment Forum and retired Deputy Assistant Executive Director of UNEP. Arthur’s path has spanned many fields, from studying coral reefs as a biologist, to working extensively with the UN as a consultant on environmental assessment and sustainability.
🌍 He is also the author of the 1996 book “The Eco Principle”, a treatise on reevaluating our direction and reorganizing our societies to create a truly sustainable global civilization. The concept of the eco – a self-organizing system of sorts – is used extensively throughout the book in order to explore the shaky relationship between the living planet and our ongoing extractive economic activity.
In this chat, Arthur was kind enough to share his fascinating theory and its frameworks with us. We examined the intersection of economy and ecology, discussed current models of production and trade and their failures, and explored ways of enabling small – but real – change by simplifying our lives, changing our consumption habits, and activating our political instincts.
Thank you for tuning in!
The opinions expressed in this podcast by the host(s) and/or guest(s) do not in any way represent the official positions of FOGGS, katoikos.world, or any other affiliated organization.
