A REFUTATION FROM CAPITALISM TOWARD ENVIRONMENTALISM’S CRITICS RELATED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riska Fara Farucha ◽  
Naupal Asnawi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Metabolic Rift ◽  
Unlimited Growth

From environmentalism’s perspective, there are four fundamental assumptions that make capitalism inconsistent with efforts to preserve the environment. First, unlimited growth in the capitalist system is contradicted with limited environmental conditions. Second, the basic principles of capitalism (individual freedom, self-interests, and free-market) are not compatible with efforts to preserve the environment. Third, capitalism has caused a "metabolic rift" between society and the ecosystem. Fourth, the tendency of capitalism that creates consumer society will produce massive pollution. This article is intended to refute these four environmentalism critics and also demonstrate the coherence of the theory of capitalism on environmental preservation. To accomplish this aim, the method of refutation is first used to show the shortcomings of the claim about environmentalism in its critique, then continue with an analytical explanation of the whole theory of capitalism, and conclude with a theoretical elaboration of all these concepts. This paper argues that environmentalism critics are irrelevant because capitalism is actually capable of preserving the environment.

scholarly journals Islamic Banking: The Firewall Against The Global Financial Crisis

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohana Othman ◽  
Nooraslinda Abdul Aris ◽  
Rafidah Mohd Azli ◽  
Roshayani Arshad
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Islamic Economic ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Transactions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fundamental Values

The global financial crisis that devastated many of the worlds financial systems in a manner never seen before exposed the glaring weakness in risk management and interest-driven policies. The crisis brought the collapse of several iconic financial institutions once perceived to be too strong to capitulate. The crisis engulfed one economy after another from corporations to eventually bring about the collapse of governments of countries reeling from the impact of the crisis. Asset values plummeted and the crisis clearly demonstrated the fragility of the western capitalist system and the free market economy. The Islamic economic and financial system is anchored on universal honorable values, ideals and morals - honesty, credibility, transparency, co-operation and solidarity. These fundamental values uphold stability, security and safety in any financial transactions. Of paramount consideration is that the Shariah prohibits any economic and financial transactions that involve usury, lying, gambling, cheating, unsubstantiated risk or uncertainty (gharar), monopoly, exploitation, greed, unfairness and taking other peoples money unjustly. Another key aspect to the philosophy behind the Islamic financial system is money issued must be fully asset backed. It is impermissible to allow money to be traded for money except at par. Islam is not just the prohibition of riba and zakah (alms); it is a comprehensive system to fulfill societys basic necessities (food, clothing and shelter). History has demonstrated that Islam has the capacity to deliver and has succeeded in providing a viable economic system.

scholarly journals Reflexivity, knowledge and ecological awareness: premises for responsible action in the hospital work environment

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1030-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silviamar Camponogara ◽  
Flávia Regina Sousa Ramos ◽  
Ana Lucia Cardoso Kirchhof
Keyword(s):  
Public Hospital ◽  
Environmental Problem ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Hospital Work ◽  
Field Observation Data ◽  
Responsible Action

The article aims to analyze the interface of reflexivity, knowledge and ecologic awareness in the context of hospital work, based on data collected in a qualitative case study carried out at a public hospital. Field observation data and interviews are discussed in the light of sociologic and philosophic references. Workers expressed the interface between knowledge and action, in which there is a cycle of lack of knowledge, automatism in the actions and lack of environmental awareness, posing limits to individual awareness and to responsibility towards environmental preservation. Increased debate and education, including the environmental issue, are needed in the context of hospital work. Although hospital work is reflexively affected by the environmental problem, that does not guarantee the reorientation of practices and responsible action towards the environment.

Diasporic media and migrant worker consumerism: Thematic critique of magazine advertisements for the Filipino community in Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-258
Author(s):  
Francis Raymond Calbay
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Filipino Diaspora ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Financial Burdens

The financial burdens of Filipino migrant workers are exacerbated by the lure of miscellaneous consumer goods peddled to them by businesses looking for a lucrative share of their remittances. This study examines a profit-oriented model of diasporic media that directly serves the business interests of its publisher and its advertisers. It analyses the Taiwan-based EEC Now magazine and criticizes the duplicity of its proclaimed mission of ‘Caring for Migrant Workers Now and in the Future’. Through a thematic analysis of advertisements published in selected issues of EEC Now, the study reveals the consumerist ideology espoused by the magazine: the commodification of the migrant worker’s body, the obligatory sending of balikbayan (repatriate) cargo boxes and cash remittances and the search for the next overseas destination. Applying concepts from Baudrillard’s theory of consumer society and San Juan’s critique of Filipino diaspora formation, the themes from the analysis reveal how profit-oriented diasporic media reflect social inequities and service the global capitalist system that ultimately spawned labour migration.

scholarly journals Los ‘apocalipsis silenciosos’ del arte contemporáneo como dispositivos transformadores de conciencia para la reparación de una memoria ecológica degradada

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 230-246
Author(s):  
Ricardo González-García
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Future Scenario ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Unlimited Growth ◽  
Arte Contemporáneo

Como una reunión simbólica de conciencia, toda gran obra de arte es un apocalipsis silencioso que, con sus significativas impresiones o interacciones, puede llegar a transformar la estructura social. Transfigurando el mundo mediante sus espacios de representación, es capaz de adquirir una capacidad profética que denuncia situaciones a fin de, como en el caso específico aquí ofrecido, reestablecer el equilibrio de los ecosistemas degradados por la huella que el ser humano ha impreso sobre ellos. Esta misma impronta antropocénica, auspiciada por la idea de progreso que confiere la utopía del crecimiento ilimitado propuesta por el sistema capitalista, paradójicamente podría llevar al ser humano a asistir al fin de su propia especie. Por esta razón, parte del arte contemporáneo lleva tiempo sumamente preocupado en concienciar a la sociedad y, así, frenar la llegada de un catastrófico escenario futuro. Debido a la urgencia de esta acuciante situación, se abordan diversas denuncias establecidas en las prácticas artísticas para cambiar la actitud de sus espectadores. Para ello, se proponen aquí dos vertientes: la de obras que muestran escenarios distópicos y la de otras más activistas que tratan de atajar la situación desde entornos concretos. As a symbolic gathering of conscience, every great artwork is a silent apocalypse that, with its significant impressions or interactions, can transform the social structure. Transfiguring the world through its spaces of representation, it is capable of acquiring a prophetic capacity that denounces situations in order to, as in the specific case offered here; restore the balance of ecosystems degraded by the footprint that human beings have printed on them. This same anthropocenic imprint, sponsored by the idea of progress that confers the utopia of unlimited growth proposed by the capitalist system, paradoxically could lead the human being to attend the end of his own species. For this reason, part of contemporary art has been extremely concerned about raising awareness in society and, thus, curbing the arrival of a catastrophic future scenario. Due to the urgency of this pressing situation, we complaints various complaints established in artistic practices to change the attitude of its spectators. To do this, we proposed two aspects here: that of works that show dystopian scenarios and that of other more activists which try to tackle the situation from specific environments.

scholarly journals Interaction of Political Stability and Economic Development in Central Asian Countries

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Karaağaçlı
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Central Asian Countries

Central Asian Countries decolonized by break up of USSR, struggle with the important and unsolvable problems during the process of transition from an implicit and statist economic system to the capitalist system. Although 20 years have passed, the liberal countries adopted the free market economy, face the big handicaps in the transition process of their economic system to the modern capitalist system. I have been in these territories in the transition process from socialist system to the capitalist system. So I am sure that the field of tourism, trade, industry, agriculture and service has the important role in the development planning of the countries. In this study I will try to emphasize the significance and necessity of political stability and social peace and comfort to the development of tourism and trade. My former studies focused on some countries of the Central Asian Countries, had got great attention in the international congresses. Now I will try to review the importance of tourism and trade in the development of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and necessity of political stability and the advantages and disadvantages of these countries in this way. Naturally underground and over ground treasures, geopolitical, geostrategic, geo-economic positions, political systems, social structures of this region and regional balances affect directly or deviously the political stability of above countries. In this study I will try to offer suggestions in view of the fact that these interactions.

scholarly journals Paradigma Sistem Kapitalisme Dan Islam Tentang Welfare State

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Kambali
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
The State ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Material Interests ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

Welfare state or better known as the term prosperous is a form of actualization of idealism that upholds the values of humanism. It containS a set of ideal ideas on how the state is able to serve its people. Capitalism as a modern economic system, which is first demonstrated by humans, built the concept of the walfere state on the philosophy of laizes fair, which manifested itself in a free market system that uphold the value of free faith liberalism. The state in the capitalist system has a famous role with the term minimal role which in the term Adam Smith is said to be no intervesion. These roles include defense security, enforcement of justice and providing and maintaining certain public facilities and institutions. While the concept of walfere state in Islam is an effort to synergize worldly material interests with the spiritual interests of ukrowiyah. In addition, the concept of the welfare state in Islam is also based on the principles of Tawhid, al-Adl and khilafah. The role of the government in the Islamic conception includes fulfilling basic needs and guaranteeing the achievement of spiritual values. The fundamental difference between the two views of this system lies in the aspect of its philosophical foundation. Keywords: Walfare State, Laizes Fair, Tauhid, al-‘Adl

scholarly journals Dezvoltarea unui complex mobil pentru reproducerea ecologo- industrial a speciilor pelagofile de pești în condiții de fluvii și lacuri

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Crepis ◽  
◽  
Dumitru Bulat ◽  
Elena Zubcov ◽  
Marin Usatii ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fish Species ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Anthropogenic Impact ◽  
Fish Stock ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Natural Reproduction ◽  
Productivity Management ◽  
The Republic

The populations of most fish species in the Republic of Moldova reproduce naturally, however, as a result of the increasing anthropogenic impact on aquatic ecosystems, the conditions for their natural reproduction have deteriorated significantly. In this context, one of the research objectives for 2020 was the development of efficient technological principles for conservation and rational use of local fish stock. It was revealed the ensuring of the development of the most vulnerable stages in the ontogenesis of fish in controlled environmental conditions is one of the basic principles of productivity management of Danube mackerel populations. In order to put into practice the principles of managing the productivity of breeding stocks, a mobile installation has been developed for the reproduction of pelagophilous fish species.

scholarly journals Community Forum on Education in Wellington's Eastern Suburbs: A Case Study on Choice and Democratic Community Participation in New Zealand Education Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ruth Lillian Mansell
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Free Market ◽  
New Right ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Democratic Community

<p>Two different ideologies were entwined in the revolutionary reforms of the New Zealand education system implemented in 1989. One was represented by a belief, long held in New Zealand, in democratic participation of communities in decisions that affect them, as a way of empowering diverse groups of people and promoting equity for minority and disadvantaged groups. The second was the free market neo-liberalism of the New Right which emphasised the rights and responsibilities of individual people to choose for themselves what they wanted. This belief is seen as an epiphyte growing vigorously onto the main trunk of democratic egalitarian ideals. The notion of choice seemed, in the initial rhetoric of the reforms, to span both beliefs in a way that represented a settlement of the two different ideals. Community Forums on Education was one of the new policies which seemed to meet both these ideals, providing a means for communities to affect decisions about education issues in their own district and for parents through their Board of Trustees to exercise their own choice for what kind of school they wanted. The way in which the two parts of the tree of education policy grew together is examined first through an analysis of the intentions of those who developed the policy for Community Forums on Education, and then in a case study of the implementation of the policy in the third of the Forums which took place in the Eastern Suburbs of Wellington in 1990. The perceptions of some of the participants in this Forum are reported and analysed. Tensions and conflicts between the two ideals are revealed in both the process and the outcomes of this Forum, as the participants discover that the simple market understanding of choice is increasingly favoured by the politicians who still make the final decisions. The participants describe the conditions which they believe are needed for the more complex democratic community participation to succeed. Their growing frustration and disillusionment is described as they discover that political imperatives for quick decisions, tighter central control, and constrained resources ensure these conditions are not met. This Forum is perceived by many to have given the choice to the already privileged minority, who have advantages of time, access to information, confidence in the language of the market and money. In the light of this Forum, I consider in the concluding section the relationship and interaction between two interpretations of democracy - 'strong' democracy characterised by community participation and 'thin' democracy extolling individual freedom of choice. The question that is raised is whether it is possible, under a New Right regime committed to individual freedom of choice, for the conditions necessary for democratic participation to flourish.</p>

From Civilisational Crisis to Revolutionary Transformation?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg Suša
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Free Market Capitalism ◽  
Market Capitalism

Strong perceptions of crises have been in the making since the 1970s. The plurality of crises results from dynamic transformations of politico-economic, societal and environmental conditions. Policies adapting to these crises decisively shaped the ‘neoliberal turn’ of Western societies, responding to economic, social and technological changes in ambiguous ways: they combine deregulation with new modes of control and certain civilising efforts. In this context, the global expansion of ostensibly free-market capitalism, accompanied by relocations of industries and new directions of technological innovation, has played a key role. This configuration affects global civilisational dynamics, now headed either towards further degradation of humanity and the planet or to the generation of something new. The question is whether a revolutionary transformation of both capitalism and civilisation could be on the horizon.

Taming Capitalism before its Triumph

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Unlimited Growth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Rich History ◽  
Economic Improvement

This study revisits England’s culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720, a crucial period of its transformation into a global power backed by strong domestic industries. It is often suggested that England in this period grew confident of its prospect for unlimited growth. Merchants, inventors, and others proposed achieving profit and abundance. Such promises were then, as now, prone to perversion, however. The distinguishing feature of this study is to draw on the early modern concept of ‘projecting’ to explore the darker sides of England’s obsession with improvement. Thriving literary culture under the early Stuart kings gave rise to a predominantly negative public understanding of entrepreneurs or ‘projectors’ as people pursuing the Crown’s and their own profits at the public’s expense. The book examines how this emerging public distrust came to shape the nature of embryonic capitalism in the subseqeuent decades. By criticizing greedy projectors, the incipient public sphere helped reorient the practices of entrepreneurs and statesmen away from the most damaging of rent-seeking behaviours. Far from being a recent response to mainstream capitalism, ideas about publicly beneficial businesses have long shaped the pursuit of wealth, power, and profit. The book unravels this rich history of broken promises of public service and the ensuing public suspicion as early modern actors experienced it to throw fresh light on the emergence of consumer society and the financial revolution towards the end of the seventeenth century.

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