Walther Zeug recently attended the 1st International Conference on Absolute Sustainability – “From Less Bad to Good Enough”, hosted by the Centre for Absolute Sustainability at DTU Sustain. As a reflection on the conference he published a post on his LinkedIn account, arguing that Absolute Sustainability Assessments (in contrast to conventional Life Cycle Assessments) has far reaching implications for political ecology and political economy, which must ultimately be adressed by forms of democratic economic planning. In his presentation at the conference on Cybernetic Democratic Economic Planning he went into detail on these points and elaborates it can be a way to adress said implications. To read the full post, click here.
absolute sustainability must be understood within a systemic socio-ecological transformation toward post-capitalist economies. CDEP provides a framework and tool for cybernetically coordinated, democratically planned economies that operate within ecological and societal boundaries.