{"id":3803,"date":"2013-08-09T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:12","slug":"david-suzuki-says-why-conventional-economics-is-a-form-of-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/david-suzuki-says-why-conventional-economics-is-a-form-of-brain-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"David Suzuki says why conventional economics is a form of brain damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-8.01.03-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-8.01.03-AM-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"David Suzuki\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-8.01.03-AM-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-8.01.03-AM-225x160.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-08-09-at-8.01.03-AM.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>David Suzuki explains why,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/49953262\">Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Money doesn&#8217;t stand for anything. And money now grows faster than the real world. Economics is fundamentally, so disconnected from the real world it is destructive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Economists call life and biodiversity, &#8220;externalities,&#8221; yet we rely on the services that plants, insects and animals render to the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are told over and over that the economy is the bottom line. I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/davidsuzuki.org\/\">davidsuzuki.org\/<\/a> to learn more about David Suzuki and his foundation<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sustainableman.org\">sustainableman.org<\/a> explores the world of sustainability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Suzuki explains why, Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Money doesn&#8217;t stand for anything. And money now grows faster than the real world. Economics is fundamentally, so disconnected from the real world it is destructive. Economists call life and biodiversity, &#8220;externalities,&#8221; yet we rely on the services that plants, insects and animals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/david-suzuki-says-why-conventional-economics-is-a-form-of-brain-damage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Suzuki says why conventional economics is a form of brain damage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,563,564,160,1215],"tags":[898,1216,1217,1219,1220,1218,1221],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-government-trade","category-justice","category-money-economy","category-news-truths","category-sustainability","tag-business","tag-conventional","tag-economics","tag-externalities","tag-money","tag-planet","tag-sustainability-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}