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From YouTube: Molly Scott Cato - Green Economy | #AWClimateAssembly
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So
this
is
what
economic
growth
has
looked
like
since
the
middle
ages,
and
you
can
see
that
for
several
centuries
we
kind
of
used
about
the
same
amount
of
resources
and
carried
on
about
the
same
lifestyle.
And
then
once
we
hit
the
industrial
revolution,
we
massively
exploited
those
carbon-based
resources
and
that
fueled
our
incredible
exponential
economic
growth.
You
know
almost
like
a
vertical
line
up,
and
this
obviously
means
gobbling
up
masses
of
resources
and
also
producing
a
huge
amount
of
carbon
dioxide.
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So
a
useful
way
of
thinking
about
this
is
moving
from
the
perspective
of
the
cowboy
to
the
perspective
of
the
space
man.
So
if
you're
a
cowboy
you're
out
there
on
the
plane,
you
can
just
toss
your
rubbish
away.
There's
masses
of
space
no
need
to
worry,
but
if
you're
a
space
man,
you
really
recognize
that
you
just
got
the
limit
of
that
small
suit.
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We
use
those
products
and
then
we
throw
them
away,
but
the
circular
economy
perspective
tells
you
there
isn't
actually
any
away
everything
that
we
throw
away
as
waste
stays
with
us,
and
so
the
design
of
a
circular
economy
means
that
everything
that
is
a
waste
product
must
become
the
input
to
a
new
production
process
and
that's
a
really
extraordinary
way
of
thinking.
But
I
think
an
example
that
can
tell
you
how
this
works
is
the
example
of
locally
grown
vegetables.
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Obviously
that's
a
lot
harder
to
achieve
in
terms
of
industrial
processes,
but
that's
the
planning
that's
going
on
and
lots
of
progress
has
been
made
already
in
that
direction
and
anything
that
isn't
part
of
a
circular
economy.
Can't
be
part
of
a
sustainable
economy,
so
there's
loads.
I
could
say
about
this.
I've
only
got
five
minutes,
but
I'm
going
to
just
think
through
some
of
the
ways
we've
changed.
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Our
thinking
because
of
covid19,
one
of
the
ways
is
just
really
recognizing
what
we
value
so
how
many
people
are
now
prepared
to
sit
in
their
car
for
two
hours
commuting
to
their
office
when
they
can
work
from
home?
That
shift
has
saved
an
enormous
amount
of
co2
emissions
and
improved
quality
of
life.
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I
think
we've
also
realized
that
the
jobs
we
thought
were
really
important
in
the
city
in
advertising
or
whatever
those
weren't,
the
jobs
that
really
mattered
the
jobs.
That
really
mattered
were
people
that
stacked
shelves
in
supermarkets.
So
we
could
get
our
food
or,
in
my
case,
through
our
food
locally
here
on
the
farm,
doctors,
nurses,
people,
you
know
that
some
of
the
most
menial
people
are
the
worst
paid
actually
had
the
most
important
jobs
and
lots
of
us
also
reconnected
with
nature
and
learned
the
importance
of
that
relationship.