Sustainability - Science topic

Muñoz, Lucio, 2017. If Going From Free Markets to Free Markets Is the Science Based Approach: What is Then the Model Structure, Price Structure, Choice Structure and the Knowledge Structure and Related Gaps of the 2012 Paradigm Shift From Perfect Traditional Market to Perfect Green Market Thinking?, In: International Journal of Research & Development Organisation(IJRDO), ISSN: 2455-6661, Vol. 3, Issue 1, January, Pp.70-90., India.

The findings of a recent literature review I conducted indicate that, among all the by-products of olive oil production, wastewater has received the least attention from a life cycle perspective. I would be interested to understand which best practices you are aware of for the valorization of olive oil wastewater.

Have you read this article?

Does the use of theory or theories mandatory in social science research including economics and business administration areas?

The current trend appearing to have come from nowhere in 2024 promoting economic circularity to solve a sustainability problem embedded in it is mind boggling, which leads to the question: If a linearly polluting society is not sustainable, how can a circularity polluting society be sustainable?

Perhaps someone promoting economic circularity can explain

Note:

This question is academic, not political.

Is a low carbon development market a green market model?

If yes;

Is low carbon development a win-win sustainable development model?

If yes;

Is low carbon development a green growth based market model?

If yes;

Is low carbon development a win-win economy-environment partnership model?

If yes.

Then, sustainable development a la low carbon is a green markets/green growth based model.

Therefore, if they believe this why not to say openly that to ensure environmental sustainability as per goal 7 of the Millenium Development Goals(MDGs) we have to implement sustainable development strategies(e.g. low carbon) through green market based green growth?...

If they believe that, then why to use low carbon development sometimes, sustainable development sometimes, green growth sometimes, and green markets sometimes in any document coming from the UN institutions related to this file or agreements like the 2015 Paris Agreement giving the impression that they are not closely related concepts, but the same?. Why not to minimize confusion?

The ever-increasing price of food products purchased by consumers in stores is another argument for buying products directly from a farmer producing real healthy, non-chemical-soaked crops produced according to the formula of sustainable organic farming, bypassing middlemen, commodity logistics centers, processing plants, stores and shopping malls, which sell crops or processed food products many times more expensive compared to the farmer's prices, and/or to set up a fruit and vegetable garden for your own needs and become independent of expensive middlemen and unnecessary costs. With such a solution, the farmer would earn more and the consumer would buy healthy crops much cheaper. Well, but the political pressure for these simple solutions to many problems is not there. Why? Because then the revenue from indirect taxes to the state budget, from VAT would be able to fall significantly, and after all, VAT is still the main source of revenue to the state budget in Poland. Well, such is the tax system we have. And could it be different? It could, but unfortunately it's easier to tax citizens and entities with lower and lowest incomes than those with higher incomes, who often also set up fictitious headquarters in tax havens in order to additionally pay even less taxes into the state's public finance system. Besides, this kind of solution would be good for the climate and the environment for many reasons. Maintaining home vegetable, fruit and flower gardens would save money for citizens, reduce environmental pollution from exhaust fumes emitted by cars transporting agricultural crops from the field to logistics centers, agri-food processing companies and then processed food products delivered to stores, shopping centers in cities, food discounters and hypermarkets. In addition, citizens who run vegetable and fruit gardens to obtain their own vegetable crops, their own vegetables and fruits usually do not use chemical pesticides, so the resulting food is realistically healthier than what is purchased in vegetable stores, discount stores and hypermarkets, where vegetables and fruits and the processed food products made from them go, which were grown in farm fields in a model of intensive, production-intensive, highly exploitative soil, climate and environment unsustainable agriculture formula. On the other hand, in the situation of running subsistence vegetable, fruit and flower gardens without the use of chemical pesticides, in which most or all of the farming and tending work is done by hand, with a high level of biodiversity, taking into account the coexistence in the garden of different species and varieties of crops, vegetables, fruits, flower meadows, shrubs and trees is this type of mini-agriculture, running the said gardens is close to the formula of pro-ecological, pro-climate, pro-environmental sustainable organic agriculture. Occurring in this kind of biodiverse gardens also flower meadows, flowering various species of grasses, perennials, meadow plants, as well as shrubs and trees is very friendly to pollinating insects, including bees, whose population has declined by several tens of percent over the past few decades of time. In addition, in such flower gardens, insect houses are increasingly being built and/or beehives are being erected to ensure the functioning of pollinating insects in the micro-biodiversity ecosystem thus created. On the other hand, in managing even small home vegetable and flower gardens, in their planning and organzation, the new information technology of advanced data processing, including generative artificial intelligence technology, can be of great help.

I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following article:

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

I invite you to discuss this important topic for the future of the planet's biosphere and climate.

I have described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:

OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion about it?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Bees extract from plants and flowers what is needed for a quality natural product; the honey. These creatures operate within the programs of behaviour genetically inscribed in their brain.They do not destroy the ecological balance. Rather they help in maintaining it.

How far can natural strategies of sustainable living can learnt and if possible translated into human practical social systems? Human social systems have become increasingly intrusive and destructive of ecology and natural habitats.

What are the modern approaches to the organization and sustainable management of greenery in urbanized cities? How can ecological and recreational functions be introduced into the landscape and territorial planning of city parks?

It seems that since 2012 Rio +20 Conference, the world has been moving away from science based perfect market thinking, a moved that apparently has been helped by the confusion created by the 2012 green market paradigm shift avoidance move or the green market shift avoidance period 2012-2024, and this raises the question, Is science based on a political definition science?

What do you think? Yes, why? No, why not?

Since 1987 WCED report "Our Common Future" pollution has been increasing, not decreasing, as no pollution reduction markets have been set up yet to transition towards pollution-less markets, which raises the question: Why should we expect pollution management markets to lead us increasingly away and away from pollution-less markets?.

Any ideas to the why?

Note: If you understand the difference between how pollution management markets and pollution reduction markets in terms of pollution-less market transition friendliness work, you may be able to see why.

Most in researchgate may be familiar with concepts like golden paradigms and flawed paradigm and paradigm evolution, but what about the idea that links them all, which may lead to or be behind distorted knowledge based policy action.

And this makes the following question interesting based on a new term: What is a golden trojan paradigm?

What do you think? Why?

In the past, only a few companies and enterprises have, on their own initiative, applied non-mandatory enhanced non-financial reporting, including reporting on issues of meeting sustainability goals, green business transformation, environmental and climate social responsibility, creation and implementation of new green investments and eco-innovations, adding sustainability and green business strategies to the company's mission, conducting business in accordance with the principles of green economics and closed-loop economics, including, among others. Among other things, significantly decarbonizing production processes, basing production processes or the provision of services on energy from renewable and zero-emission energy sources, increasing the scale of recycling and reducing the level of environmental pollution from the manufacturing processes of business entities, organizing and financing pro-environmental and pro-climate projects such as planning and implementing reforestation programs carried out in post-industrially degraded areas, etc. This was usually associated with a situation in which the issues of sustainable development goals and the green economy were, on their own initiative, integrated into the strategy of their business, inclusion in the company's mission and strategic directions of business development within the applied business model.

However, in connection with the growing importance of the issue of achieving the objectives of sustainable development and green transformation of the economy, the increase in the level of general social pro-climate and pro-environmental awareness related to the issue of the accelerating process of global warming, the inclusion of the issue of carbon intensity with the implementation of the objectives of sustainable development and conducting business in accordance with the principles of green economics, the need to reduce the scale of greenwashing practices increasingly used by many companies and enterprises, the linking of the issue of carbon intensity with the system of fees for CO2 emissions being developed in the European Union, etc., the need for legal normalization has emerged. the need for legal normalization of the issue of expanded, full non-financial reporting including ESG reporting has emerged.

The essence of ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting is to take into account the sphere of social, environmental and managerial responsibility of business as part of full, extended non-financial reporting. In view of the above, ESG reporting has recently become one of the key issues that determine the reputation but also the competitiveness of companies in the market. Research shows that business entities that undertake and develop pro-social, pro-environmental, pro-climate, etc. non-financial ESG reporting projects achieve better financial performance. The issue of improved financial performance is derived from the improvement of image, the increase in the scale of the company's brand recognition, the growth of the company's reputation with customers and investors. Improving the level of competitiveness of the company achieved through ESG measures is a process that requires the implementation of a number of measures in many spheres of business operation. Therefore, business entities should increase the scale of taking into account the sphere of social, environmental and managerial responsibility of business as part of full, extended non-financial reporting. Accordingly, it is necessary to take into account the implementation of social, environmental and risk management objectives in the context of business operations as part of responsible decision-making. In the sphere of corporate social responsibility, companies and enterprises should increase the scale of creating good working conditions, increasing diversity and equality in the workplace and engaging in social activities. All these aspects should positively affect the perception of the company by customers and employees, improve the reputation and image of the business entity which should then positively affect the level of satisfaction and motivation among employees.

The issue of environmental protection, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the level of environmental pollutants is also a particularly important aspect of expanded non-financial ESG reporting, which has a significant impact on the company's image and financial performance. Planning, improving and implementing measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency, reduce the scale of waste generation, increase the scale of recycling, reduce water consumption in manufacturing processes, apply the green, sustainable and closed-loop economics model are important elements of environmental, pro-environmental and pro-climate measures. Companies and enterprises that undertake and develop such pro-environmental and pro-climate projects gain recognition among customers, business counterparties and investors, which should also result in improved financial performance. Customers, business counterparties and investors noticing the pro-environmental and pro-climate measures taken by companies and enterprises notice that in this way certain business entities are also becoming fully pro-social in real terms.

And in the area of risk management, expanded non-financial ESG-sensitive reporting can help companies minimize the costs associated with potential risks associated with increasingly pro-environmental and pro-climate business activities. This can also reduce the scale of scandals involving ethical issues and increase the likelihood of avoiding risks associated with corrupt practices. The improvement of risk management processes increases the resilience of companies and enterprises to the negative factors of the external economic environment, including the impact of economic crises, economic recessions on the operation of the company's business, contributes to the precise estimation of the level of risk, the definition of risks and the preparation of appropriate safety reserves, the development of early warning systems for threats and development opportunities of business entities, motivates the creation of emergency systems, crisis management, etc. The effect of such activities carried out in the creation and improvement of risk management systems should also result in improved financial performance of companies, enterprises and other business entities. In addition to having a positive impact on a company's image, ESG can also help increase competitiveness in the market. ESG-related activities can generate savings for the company, improve the efficiency of business processes and increase customer and employee loyalty.

According to regulations adopted in the European Union, from 2024, full non-financial reporting will apply to large public interest companies already covered by the NFRD and with more than 500 employees. From 2025, full non-financial reporting will apply to companies with more than 250 employees and/or €40 million in turnover and/or €20 million in total assets. And from 2026, full non-financial reporting will apply to companies in the SME sector and other listed companies with more than 10 employees.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion on this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

In my next papers I will focus on the fact that past development assumptions made affecting system stability have complicated policy correction and action in terms of system stability problems, like the assumption that market dynamics and population dynamics are independent factors affecting system stability.

What do you think?

Market approaches and population dynamics approaches to system stability issues like environmental problems assume market and population dynamics independency. In other words, they assume market impacts work under population dynamics neutrality: they do not have population dynamics impacts; and population dynamics impacts work under market dynamic neutrality: they do not affect markets,

And this raises the question: Does the market and population dynamics independency assumption used by development practitioners explains the origin of the over population problem?

I think No, what do you think? Why?

Imagine the WCED 1987 would have set only one sustainable development goal, closing the renewable energy technology gap to make renewable energy a permanent substitute of non-renewable energy as soon as possible and address pollution production head on by transitioning out of dirty economies.

Imagine 2012 RIO +20 would have made only one goal to support the implementation of green markets, to set up a system around implementation, financing, and monitoring of the closing of the renewable energy technology gap in each country as soon as possible to address pollution reduction head on by making pollution reduction a profit-making opportunity.

Imagine the 2015 Paris agreement had only one goal implemented in a socially friendly manner, to close the renewable energy technology gap as soon as possible to lead the dirty economy behind and stop providing benefits to those making money from dirty development.

Instead, attention has been placed on managing the consequences of pollution production markets which keeps renewable energy as a permanent complement and send dirty markets under permanent dirty market failure.

And this raises the question, should making renewable energy a permanent substitute be a clear and practical SDG goal?

What do you think?

Planet Earth inclusive of humanity is facing the unprecedented twin crisis of global warming and climate change which are impacting all systems and sectors transgressing all boundaries. There are two main approaches: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation for preventing greenhouse gases to build up in the atmosphere by curtailing its release at the source as well as by enhancing GHG sink. The second strategy involves measures for living with the climatic changes. A balanced mix of multiprong measures is to be taken from individual to institutional levels, from local, regional to global scale.

All the researchers, thinkers and RG friends are invited to take part in this important discussion with your insightful views and useful literature about the state of the art of mitigation and adaptive strategies - both traditional ecological knowledge and modern tools and technologies.

Dear Valuable Scientists,

"Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences 2nd  International Symposium on Political Science and Public Administration"  will be held in Tekirdağ on 28-29/November/2024, ONLINE. The theme of the symposium was determined as "Climate Change and Sustainable Future".

We are first of all expecting an Abstract with the format

Then o 10 minutes youtube video presentation

Then we will give you the participation certificate and book of abstracts

And also after the video presentation evaluation we will suggest to invite you to our Scentific Comitee member with the Certificate

The symposium aims to bring together scientists and researchers from different countries from Political Science and Public Administration discipline, to create a platform that will enable them to present their studies, and to share their knowledge and collaborate nationally and internationally. A detailed information about the program is announced on the official website: https://iibfsempozyum.nku.edu.tr/SempozyumHakk%C4%B1ndaSiyaset/0/s/21993/29425

- Peer-reviewed

- Proceedings PDF with ISBN will be published

- Symposium will be held only ONLINE

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Climate Change and Sustainable Future

Abstract submission deadline: 1 October 2024

Symposium Date: 25 October 2024

If concept of circular bioeconomy denotes managing and converting organic wastes as food, feed and energy in a sustainable manner. Then how circular bioeconomic activities could play significant role in achieving resilience in agriculture? and what would be some best example of crop sector circular bioeconomic activities?

Imaging a world under perfect red market thinking or under perfect socially friendly capitalism since 1776 had Adam Smith giving us that model then instead of the perfect traditional market, would that have created environmental sustainability problems too by 1987/WCED?

What do you think?

Yes, and why do you think so? No, and why do you think so?

Note:

This requires a little thinking outside the box

Under perfect market paradigm shift avoidance, the responsibilities of governments and of corporations in development change, which raises the question: Under perfect market paradigm shift avoidance, who is to be blamed if social and/or environmental systems collapse, governments or corporations? Why?

Who do you think is to be blamed? And why do you think that is the case?

A short answer who and why is the best.

Sources:

At least in the economic arena, by this time the norm should have been green microeconomics and green macroeconomy since 2012 Rio +20 as the tools to be taught to deal with the environmental crisis as consensus on paradigm change to green market, green growth, and green economies was reached/RIO +20 Conference/UNCSD 2012, but traditional economic thinking and traditional macroeconomic thinking is still the norm, which means that universities knowingly or not are normalizing paradigm shift avoidance, and blocking the growth of knowledge a la Thomas Kuhn; and this raises the question: Paradigm shift avoidance and universities, do they have a duty to science based paradigm evolution of knowledge?

what do you think?

Simply state Yes and give your opinion on why you think Yes or say No, and state your opinion on why you think No.

Just as in the case of greenwashing where people can get tricked because the word GREEN sounds good, the same can be said with respect to the current move from linear economic thinking to circular economic thinking where some people may be tricked because the word CIRCULAR sounds good.

But those familiar with science based revolutions a la Thomas Kuhn should be able to spot WHERE THE TRICK IS.

And this raises the academic question, Why the current move from linear economic thinking to circular economic thinking is inconsistent with Thomas Kuhn's paradigm evolution loop?

What do you think?

Can you see the inconsistency?

And hence, can you see the trick?

Those familiar with that greenwashing is and the consequences of greenwashing should be able to see whether the answer to the question is short yes and why or a short no and why no without contradicting themselves while answering.

What do you think the answer is? Yes and why or No and why no.

Dear connections, I’m currently searching for a PhD/Research position in the field of “Energy Transition”, with a strong interest in Energy Systems Analysis & Modeling as well as Clean Energy Technologies (EV,..). My research track is in the field of energy market analysis & forecast using AI. In my M.Sc. thesis at The American University in Cairo, I managed to build an energy planning model using different ANN topologies, that will help in securing the balance between the energy supply and demand in the United Kingdom for different end-use sectors; domestic, industrial, transport, and services sectors. I also carried out a long-term forecasting for the UK's final energy consumption up to the year 2035, and analyzed the results comparing to the outlook of the UK’s governmental department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Being a Future Energy Leader at the World Energy Council and an energy transition advocate, I understand the importance of humanising energy and contributing to the global dialogue on energy and sustainability issues. On the other hand, I have 11 years of professional experience in the oil and gas, refining, and petrochemical industries at Enppi, one of the leading engineering and EPC main contractors in the Middle East and Africa. I am definitely open to expanding my career path in other "Energy Transition" fields of research, and open for relocation, if the PhD requires so. Please let me know if there are any potential openings. Thank you.

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Dear Researchers,

I hope this email finds you well. I am excited to inform you that I will be serving as a Guest Editor for a new Special Collection titled: "Special Collection on Sustainable Solid-State Technologies for Joining Similar and Dissimilar Polymers." This collection is set to be published by Sage Publishing in their esteemed journal "Advances in Mechanical Engineering," which is a JCR-ranked (impact factor 1.8 and CiteScore 3.4), peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. You can find more information about our collection and the journal in links below:

The motivation behind launching this Special Collection stems from the growing importance of enhancing product design flexibility through the efficient and practical utilization of various materials, particularly in engineering constructions. As polymer materials gain traction in structural applications, it becomes imperative to explore sustainable solid-state technologies for joining similar and dissimilar polymers. Through this collection, we aim to shed light on innovative techniques such as:

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I am particularly keen to encourage papers focused on polymeric materials, sustainable practices, and advancements in joining technologies. Your expertise in these fileds leads me to believe that your latest research could significantly contribute to this collection.

I would like to extend an invitation to you to consider publishing your latest research in this Special Collection. If you are interested, please contact me with your suggested title, and I will be delighted to pass on your details to Sage so they may work with you toward publication.

As per Open Access publication requirements, please note that there will be a publication fee associated with this opportunity. However, the benefit lies in the increased visibility of your paper, as it will not only appear in the regular issue but also in the Special Collection, attracting a broader readership. Ongoing promotions for the Special Collection will ensure that your paper receives continuous views, downloads, and citations.

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Think of the environmental sustainability problem the Brundtland Commission highlighted and documented in 1987(WCED) in “Our Common Future” as an environmental pollution production market problem, the consequence of a market failure that was always there and which has always been there embedded in the perfect traditional market thinking, but it was assumed away using environmental externality neutrality assumptions. A problem that can only be solved by internalizing the environmental cost of production in the pricing mechanism of the traditional market to shift it to green market pricing. Hence, only when we fix the root cause of the environmental pollution production problem, the environmentally distorted traditional market prices, we address the environmental pollution problem head on as when doing this we are making environmental pollution reduction a good business opportunity for green producers.

Since we have not fixed the root cause of the problem yet as there are no green markets in place today to transition green economies towards the environmentally clean economies; then this raises the question: Is the current traditional circular economy thinking push worse for the environment than the perfect traditional market economy thinking of Adam Smith that created the environmental problem in the first place?

If Yes, why? If, No, why not?

What do you think?

In recent years, the establishment of additional urban parks, green areas, flower meadows, botanical gardens, etc., in the areas of urban agglomerations has been growing in importance. The purpose of increasing the scale of green areas in cities while reducing areas of concrete sidewalks and asphalt roadways is to improve living conditions for residents, reduce atmospheric temperatures and increase humidity, which is particularly important during increasingly severe summer heat and dry periods, improve aesthetics and increase the scale of pro-climate land use, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality, create places for recreation and rest, create conditions that allow pollinating insects, birds and other animals to feed. On the other hand, the scale of establishing home flower gardens, flower and vegetable gardens, vegetable and fruit gardens, etc. is also growing. The functions of home flower gardens, mini botanical gardens are analogous to those described above. However, the purpose of establishing also home vegetable and/or fruit gardens is to create a source of one's own crops, fruits and vegetables, which are usually grown without the use of pesticides and other pesticides and most of the cultivation, gardening, agricultural work is done by hand. As a result, most small-scale home flower, vegetable and/or fruit gardens are run in the formula of sustainable, pro-environmental and pro-climate gardening. In this way, those who run home vegetable and fruit gardens save money by spending less of it on groceries, eat healthier by eating less highly processed and industrially produced food products. Besides, the decreasing scale of citizens' purchases of agricultural crops and food products processed from them in stores, shopping centers, hypermarkets and discount stores generates a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions emitted by vehicles transporting the said food products from factories, agro-processing plants to wholesalers, logistics centers and then to the said retail stores. Besides, in connection with the trend towards sustainability, within the framework of creating sustainable gardens, the said gardens are designed to be as naturalistic as possible, highly biodiverse, consisting of different species of meadow flower plants, species of fruit plants, vegetables, shrubs, trees, etc., selecting certain different species of the said plants so that they can coexist with each other. A good solution for running sustainable, pro-environmental and pro-climate gardens is also to create one's own water source, i.e. by building deep water wells and creating retention systems and ministaves to catch and collect rainwater. A good solution to increase the scale of biodiversity, humidity and improve aesthetic value is the creation of byways, ministaws, water reservoirs, where specially selected species and varieties of aquatic plants, fish and other pond animals exist. In addition, in order to increase the ecological security of flower pollination, a good solution is to establish a small apiary, adapted to the size of the local garden and/or nearby other gardens and green areas, where populations, honeybee colonies will exist. The design of this kind of nice, highly biodiverse flower garden containing zones of shrubs, trees, vegetable and fruit crops, as well as ponds, naturalized rest zones, etc., requires the application of a great deal of time and knowledge in the fields of horticulture, crop cultivation, landscaping design, plant biology, ecology of ecosystems composed of coexisting multiple plant species, but also animals such as specific species of fish and other pond animals. In addition, in this kind of multifunctional, biodiverse garden, an important role can be played by a composter which will be an important element of sustainability and closed-loop economy, reduction of post-horticultural, agricultural and other organic waste. Therefore, new ICT information technologies, knowledge resources available on the Internet and their multi-criteria and intelligent processing implemented with the help of generative artificial intelligence may prove helpful in this kind of design, in which it is necessary to take into account many different conditions of the specific location of the planned garden, specific terrain, local climate, etc., and the various determinants mentioned above.

I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following article:

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

I invite you to discuss this important topic for the future of the planet's biosphere and climate.

I have described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:

OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

The growth of science based knowledge or contribution to knowledge a la Thomas Kuhn is foward looking as FLAWED paradigms(STATUS QUO) enter the Kuhn's paradigm evolution loop under academic integrity, where abnormalities are removed to solve critical problems like social and/or environmental sustainability problems leading to new paradigms and knowledge as the old knowledge base is left behind, backward moves and paradigms avoidance moves are inconsistent with Thomas Kuhn's thinking.

Therefore, the move from a flawed paradigm backwards in the face of critical social and/or environmental problems is ao flawed paradigm to another even more flawed paradigm.

We know formally since 1987 WCED that the traditional market thinking/linear market thinking was a flawed paradigm socially and environmentally. Hence a move from linear economic thinking to circular economic thinking is a move from a flawed paradigm to a flawed paradigm without forward looking growth of scientific knowledge a la Thomas Kuhn as the status quo paradigm/linear traditional market goes into DEEP double down flawed paradigm/circular traditional market regardless of the history of economic thought 1987-2023.

What do you think? If No, why do you you think so? If Yes, why do you think so?

You are probably familiar with the concept of greenwashing, which took relevance just before, on, and after 2012 Rio + 20/The future we want, where ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY TOOK THE FRONT STAGE.

Now 2024 traditional economic thinking has been resurrected after being left behind by the 1987/WCED/Our Common Future as it had the root cause of the socio-environmental sustainability problems they documented embedded in it, BY SIMPLY MAKING IT CIRCULAR. nothing else required related to the embedded problem still at play:

And this raises the question, Why circular economy thinking is more than greenwashing?

Any ideas? Feel free to share them.

Doubling down on the traditional economic thinking that as documented by the WCED 1987 led to the critical social and environmental sustainability problems of the day they tried to fix with sustainable development thinking and according to the UNCSD 2012 Rio +20 had led to the environmental sustainability problem they prioritized to fix with green market thinking or to manage it through dwarf green market thinking, just by making it circular. If you bend a line with dots as problems and make it a circle, the circle still has the dots problems that are or were on the line

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Hence, defining traditional economic thinking as circular does not solve the problems associated with it and it goes against the paradigm evolution rules that Thomas Kuhn advance as IT GOES FROM STATUS QUO PARADIGM(Broken circularity by assumption based traditional economic thinking/Economy only market) TO STATUS QUO PARADIGM(Circularity based traditional economic thinking/Economy only market) WITHOUT REMOVING THE ABNORMALITIES CREATING THE SUSTAINABILITY PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORKING OF THE STATUS QUO PARADIGM, abnormalities that now 2024 are in worse state than in 1987.

Just calling something green does no make it environmentally friendly like defining pollutants as non-pollutants does not make them environmentally friendly, they are still pollutants or just by calling a pollution production market a circular market does not stop it from being a pollution production market.

Going from linear traditional capitalism to circular traditional capitalism when we should be in higher level paradigms as the WCED 1987 indicated as the social and environmental system continue to deteriorate to extreme points feeds in the pretending story that is being used and will be used to justify overthrowing capitalism to save society and the environment from total destruction from, what it will be called, by an out of control circular capitalism.

And this leads to the question, should we expect the imposition of circular economy-based capitalism to lead to a tsunami of different types of Marxism threats in the future all over the world as social and environmental systems deteriorate to critical points?

I think Yes, what do you think?

Notice, this is an academic question, not a political one

Hi,

I am doing my master's in the field of logistics and supply chain management. I have started to look for a new topic for my thesis. My initial topic was about the digital transformation in the food supply chain. However, I decided to change it because I just started to work in a manufacturing company, therefore, I am looking for suggestions that will guide me -since it is going to be my first thesis-, I might have missed or/ and resources that might help me to develop my idea. My thought is around " Industry 4.0 adoption in the sustainable supply chain: focusing on the manufacturing supply chain" for the new thesis topics. Thanks in advance.

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I will publish a book with Springer Nature on Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence. Please forward my CfP to anyone interested

Life is a journey of continuous learning. Like an experienced doctor who can see the cause of a disease at a glance, Dalio has found the same core logic that has been interpreted over and over again in these many seemingly independent and unrelated events. By analyzing multiple cases at each economic stage and searching for commonalities, we can better envision and test their causal relationships, think about where crises come from and how to avoid risks. So that when the next crisis arises, we can better cope with it.

History is always strikingly similar, and the optimism in the US about beating inflation always comes a little too early. Thinking about this while reading the book, as someone who is preparing to immigrate to the United States, I am a bit worried about whether the future of the United States is optimistic?（Inflation Similar To The 1970s）

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