Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimento

Este artículo reúne, combina y sistematiza los hallazgos derivados de dos campos de estudio que se complementan: por una parte, la concepción de la Gran Historia de David Christian, que enmarca el desarrollo y crecimiento de las civilizaciones y de la población en un contexto ecológico ampliado relativo al uso de recursos y a la perspectiva que aporta una escala temporal más amplia; por otra parte, las advertencias neomalthusianas de Albert Bartlett sobre las falacias económicas y matemáticas que se promueven en el seno de un paradigma industrial y científico alimentado por los combustibles fósiles. El artículo concluye que en las actuales circunstancias la presente civilización industrial y el crecimiento poblacional por ella promovido son ecológicamente insostenibles.

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Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimiento

http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110508

 

 4 Pages Posted: 24 Mar 2025 Last revised: 24 Jan 2025

José Angel García Landa

Universidad de Zaragoza

Date Written: May 16, 2012

Abstract

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English abstract: 

What Remains Unclear: Collapse or Sustainability

This paper brings together some crucial insights from the complementary fields of evolutionary history and economics: on the hand, David Christian's conception of Big History, setting the growth of civilizations and population within a broader ecological conception of the use of resources and the lessons of a wider timeframe, and, on the other, Albert Bartlett's neo-Malthusian warnings about the economic and mathematical fallacies promoted under an industrial and scientific paradigm powered by fossil fuels. The paper concludes that as things stand the present industrial civilization and the associated population growth it has enabled are ecologically unsustainable.

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Keywords: Economics, Big history, Sustainability, Industrial civilization, Population, Alfred Bartlett, David Christian, Economic growth, Fossil fuels, Energy, Civilization

Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Lo que no está claro: Colapso o sostenimiento (What Remains Unclear: Collapse or Sustainability)
(May 16, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5110508 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5110508

 

 

 

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