Environmental Approach: Sustainable Development and Moral Business Life

Abstract

From the perspective of the natural environment, capitalism, whether run by private individuals, corporations, or the state itself, is an unmitigated disaster; sustainable development a contradiction in terms; and human virtue in the capitalistic enterprise a very bad joke. This chapter argues that other strategies having failed, we should attempt a return of power and authority to the local level, where local knowledge of conditions and participants in the economy is the best possible guarantee of justice among persons and stewardship of the natural environment. , Abstract From the perspective of the natural environment, capitalism, whether run by private individuals, corporations, or the state itself, is an unmitigated disaster; sustainable development a contradiction in terms; and human virtue in the capitalistic enterprise a very bad joke. This chapter argues that other strategies having failed, we should attempt a return of power and authority to the local level, where local knowledge of conditions and participants in the economy is the best possible guarantee of justice among persons and stewardship of the natural environment.