Some questions around which the discussions would be based are:
• How are we part of the energy flows in our ecosystems?
• Internalising externalities? Is that absurd economics or sheer necessity?
• Entropy – should we wait to drown in it?
• Sustainable development – the most saleable snake oil?
• Degrowth – fad or wisdom?
• Homsapiens – future of the exosomatic species?
Herman Daly posed the following interesting questions:
• Do you believe that economic activities must satisfy mass balance?
• Why it is that neoclassical production functions do not satisfy the condition of mass balance?
• Do you believe that Georgescu-Roegen's interpretation of production as physical transformation is correct?
• Do you agree that the economic system is embedded in the larger environmental system, and totally dependent on it as both source and sink for the matter/energy transformed by economic activity?
• Do you believe that the matter/energy transformations required by economic activity are constrained by the entropy law?
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