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Title: | Through Western Eyes: Managing the Earth-System |
Authors: | Harman, Willis W. |
Keywords: | Sustainability Non-sustainability Eastern worldview Western science Environmental degradation Economic growth Technological advancement |
Issue Date: | Apr-1995 |
Publisher: | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata |
Series/Report no.: | Vol. 1;No. 1 |
Abstract: | This paper attempts to highlight the emergent threat posed by the Western materialistic worldview to a sustainable human civilization and draws a blueprint of ideas which can reverse this trend. In approaching this global problem from a whole-system perspective the author underlines the importance of the inseparability of environmental and other manmade problems facing humankind. He also ques tions some of the taken-for-granted assumptions of growth-based capitalism like competition, self- interest, progress and technological advance. Finally, the paper suggests that a shift in paradigm from the Western model of development to the more 'holistic' Eastern view is the need of the hour.close |
Description: | Willis W. Harman, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, California. p. 49 - 65 |
URI: | https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/4979 https://doi.org/10.1177/097168589500100106 |
ISSN: | 0971-6858 (print version) |
Appears in Collections: | Issue 1, April 1995 |
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