Sunshine Economy - The Modern Strategy of Ecology

Author: (German) Scher/Huang Fengzhu/Ma Hui
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Only a world economy based on renewable energy can avoid the self-destruction of all economic and life forms in the long run. In this book, Herman Scher outlines a universal path for ecological modernization while developing a political economy suitable for the sunlit age. The modernization of the world economy built on bioenergy is a futureless scenario—its resource carriers will rapidly approach depletion in the first half of the 21st century. The constraints of bioenergy and raw material chains exacerbate global economic crises and conflicts. The global economy based on bioresources is forced into a centralized process, ultimately destroying democracy and the market economy. A new industrial revolution that completely replaces bioresources with renewable energy and raw materials is not merely for survival. It is also the only opportunity for the world economy to achieve peaceful and equitable distribution. In such an economy, high-tech and ecologically sustainable regional economic forms will flourish. In The Sun Economy, Herman Scher attempts to clarify the necessary technical, economic, ecological, and social beginnings, as well as the political framework conditions, while outlining the possibility of a radical structural transformation. Scher's goal is to develop the self-motivation of the economy through a sun-based world economy to achieve ecological modernization.