Reengineering Capitalism From Industrial Revolution towards Sustaina
This book provides an innovative approach to sustainable development, one based on insights gleaned from the Industrial Revolution to the present, and which highlights the importance of aligning economic interests with sustainable development consideratio
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Reengineering Capitalism From Industrial Revolution towards Sustainable Development
Reengineering Capitalism
Jan Emblemsvåg
Reengineering Capitalism From Industrial Revolution towards Sustainable Development
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Jan Emblemsvåg Ålesund Norway
ISBN 978-3-319-19688-6 ISBN 978-3-319-19689-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19689-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015941497 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To the future of my little boys—Oskar and Edvard, Now you know where effort and hours have passed. I have been reading, pondering and working so hard, trying to understand how modern society should last. Not that I am a prophet, fortuneteller, wizard or such, telling the future in images and words of convolution. I am simply afraid we humans have not learned as much, as we should from 200 years of Industrial Revolution. Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, Paris, Lima and what’s more, what have really changed from all these years of discussion? Most of us agree on the inconvenient truth from Al Gore. Yet, all we are left with is just intellectual concussion.
We need not know the impact of every gas and emission, neither do we need politics based on scientific taxonomy. All this just hides the simple fact, an obvious omission, what we need is many, small steps across the economy. A long journey is made of many small steps in direction, as an invisible hand guiding every thought and action. The sum of many over time is the road to true perfection, provided a consistent system is behind every transaction. This system can be complex and political or simple and fair, I am without any doubt what to choose if the choice was mine. Better to work towards a 70 percent solution than to split the hair; endless inaction ensues in our sear
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