The Tweed Shire Council is developing an Economic Strategy document that is designed to help guide the future economic development of the Tweed Shire. The Caldera Environment Centre has been involved in planning sessions hosted by the council and has responded to the draft strategy (a copy of the draft discussion paper is available via the link below) with the following submission.
CEC Submission PDF: Submission-to-Draft-Economic-Strategy_Final_2013-07-25
The major issue that the CEC has with economic analyses such as these is their inherent selfishness and lack of consideration of social and ecological considerations. Recent trends (as demonstrated by the prominence economic discussion receives in the media) seem to be emphasising the importance of economic success above other aspects of life and personal well-being. The CEC submission highlights the failures of economic “science” in not being a proper scientific discipline, but rather a pseudo-science, and outlines alternative economic views that have their roots in ancient thinkers such as Aristotle.
Sam Dawson
Coordinator-
Caldera Environment Centre
TSC Draft Report: Tweed-Shire-EDS-Discussion-Paper_20130618.pdf
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