As Season 2 of What UnEarth sets off, we look back and try to learn from some of the most popular episodes of the first season, starting with Episode 08 with Dr. Gurudas Nulkar.
In Episode 08 Dr. Nulkar and I had explored the fundamental problem of modern economics and how it is designed to be antithetical to ecology. That a diamond cost millions but basically does nothing. While a trees are source for eternal life, we clear them faster than a teenage boy clearing his search history. The problem is not money by itself, the problem is when we assume that everything that can be valued is in fact valued, correctly, in money, by the market.
Dr Gurudas Nulkar is the Sir Ratan Tata Post Doctor Fellow at ISEC Bangalore, the Endeavour Executive fellow at Deakin University Melbourne, and currently working as the Head of Department for Strategy and General Management at SCMHRD Pune. He is also a trustee at the Ecological Society, Pune and has written several books on the intersection between economics and environment.
Dr Nulkar helped me understand that reasons for why the modern economic system, why the gdp is by itself ineffective in understading the level of human prosperity, why farmers continue to get the short end of the stick, how genuine alternatives to our current economic system exist, are real and thriving, but more importantly, why ecology and economy start with the same three letters in this week’s What UnEarth.
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