The Ideal of a Zero-Waste Humanity: Philosophical Reflections on the Demand for a Bio-Based Economy

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• 作者：Jochem Zwier (1)
  Vincent Blok (2)
  Pieter Lemmens (1)
  Robert-Jan Geerts (3)
  
  1. Department of Philosophy and Science Studies ; Faculty of Science ; Institute for Science ; Innovation ; and Society ; Radboud University Nijmegen ; P.O. Box 9010 ; 6500 GL ; Nijmegen ; The Netherlands
  2. Management Studies ; Wageningen University ; P.O. Box 8130 ; 6700 EW ; Wageningen ; The Netherlands
  3. Philosophy Chairgroup ; Sub-department Communication ; Philosophy ; and Technology ; Social Sciences Group ; Wageningen University ; P.O. Box 8130 ; 6700 EW ; Wageningen ; The Netherlands
  
• 关键词：Bio ; based economy ; Georges bataille ; Restricted economy ; General economy ; Abundance ; Scarcity
• 刊名：Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：April 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：28
• 期：2
• 页码：353-374
• 全文大小：374 KB
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Philosophy
  Ethics
  Evolutionary Biology
  Agricultural Economics
  Theory of Medicine and Bioethics
  Plant Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-322X

文摘

In this paper we inquire into the fundamental assumptions that underpin the ideal of the Bio-Based Economy (BBE) as it is currently developed . By interpreting the BBE from the philosophical perspective on economy developed by Georges Bataille, we demonstrate how the BBE is fully premised on a thinking of scarcity. As a result, the BBE exclusively frames economic problems in terms of efficient production, endeavoring to exclude a thinking of abundance and wastefulness. Our hypothesis is that this not only entails a number of internal tensions and inconsistencies with regard to the ideal of BBE, but ultimately undermines the ideal itself, by pushing purported regenerativity into a cataclysmic and terminal discharge. We here point to the strategies that the BBE employs in this exclusion, the fundamental assumptions regarding the relation between energy and economy that underpin this endeavor, as well as to the resulting inconsistencies and their catastrophic consequences. We finally argue for the introduction of the presently excluded question of abundance and wastefulness and explore the implications of such a question for the ideal of a zero-waste humanity.