Towards A Psychoanalytic Understanding Of War

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis - Inspired by the Horneyan concept of a morality of evolution and applying the psychoanalytic method, I researched a body of scientific literature to...     

The Malaise of the Soul at Work: The Drive for Creativity,Self-Actualization,and Curiosity in Education

Studies in Philosophy and Education - Franco “Bifo” Berardi tells us that the current transformation of every domain of social life into economy has led to “the subjugation of the...     

Incomplete Ecological Futures

Abstract

The scenario planning literature has so far not provided a detailed study of the negative policy consequences which could unfold from an incomplete realization of future scenarios. In order to address this shortcoming, the article analyses four GSG scenarios – Market Forces, Policy Reform, Eco-Communalism, and New Sustainability Paradigm – and associate them with a theory of environmental politics – respectively, the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis, the a-growth theory, the degrowth proposal, and ecomodernism. Then, through a literature review of those theories, the article explores the dynamics which could prevent humanity from realizing the visions of sustainable futures enshrined into the four scenarios; by doing so, the article provides a picture of how GSG’s and similar scenarios might become incomplete ecological futures.