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Eco123 Revista da Economia e Ecologia
Saturday, the 25th Abril 2020 A reflection by Dina Adão Those who know me well know that I love the Algarve: most of all, I love what this region is capable of offering those who live here and those who will choose it for their future home. And yet there’s no denying that this region also reveals a series of bad examples and bad practices, perpetrated over the years and now ingrained as bad old habits that have proved to be profitable. In 2003, when the publishing company I was working for decided to begin publication of the Guias Caleidoscópio …
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April, 2020
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21 April
Nº 17 – Doing what was promised
Tuesday, the 21st Abril 2020 An editorial by Uwe Heitkamp Six weeks were enough, that is to say, 42 days, for the world economy to be reduced to 25 percent of its capacity, and for this whole “house of cards” (Pope Francis: “Our House”) to collapse, affecting everything and everyone: companies operating in the building and property sectors, the automobile industry and its entire supply chain, aircraft manufacturers and aviation companies, all forms of tourism, especially catering and hospitality, and also companies like Adidas, even football clubs, TUI and TAP, and many more. All sectors, from the service sector to …
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14 April
Support a universal basic income PROSPERITY + FREEDOM
The economy is in a parlous state. Millions of Europeans are suddenly losing their jobs. Who is giving them any support? The most idiotic view is the one that claims that everything can remain just as it is. Three years ago, in late September, 2017, scientists and politicians gathered together at a world conference at the Portuguese Parliament to debate the possible implementation of an Unconditional Basic Income. Now, faced with the Covid-19 pandemic and the bankruptcy of many companies as the world economy collapses around them, coupled with the threat of an environmental catastrophe and a shortage of our …
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13 April
Nº 9 – From my window, I see the sea in the distance
Monday, 13th Abril 2020 by Alexandre Moura “I am from the Algarve and the sea is at the end of my road,” wrote António Pereira, an Algarvian poet, born in Armação de Pera. A poem that expresses the peace and enchantment that the Algarve has and the allure of adventure beyond the ocean. From the city of Faro, where I live, my window has a view over the Ria Formosa and, in the background, the infinite sea. The last few weeks of isolation have allowed me to discover the landscape in more detail: on one side, the hills; on the …
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13 April
No strong democracy is based on losers
The year is 2030. There’s no one sleeping in the streets in Portugal any more. No one has to stand queuing at the soup kitchens of the charitable associations. The beggars have disappeared. The universal basic income in the social state of the 21st century arrived in southern Europe during Covid-19. Portugal, the smallest of the five southern EU countries, decided ten years ago to provide each of its citizens with a basic income. The EU’s pilot scheme began in 2021. Prime Minister António Costa and his government, which had had a stable majority in a coalition in parliament with …
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12 April
Nº 8 – What’s the relationship between soya, palm oil and the Covid-19 pandemic?
Sunday, 12th Abril 2020 By Uwe Heitkamp Since the publication of the Club of Rome’s first reports (The Limits of Growth, Meadows et al., 1972), there have been many heated debates about the limits of growth. And rightly so, as our civilisation is reliant upon energy being available. Having energy available requires, in turn, even more energy, which means that suppliers must produce more energy than is initially needed. This excess energy, defined in terms of production capacity, has been decreasing over the last few decades (since 1999) for fossil fuel energy sources, while it has been increasing for renewable …
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11 April
António Vieira da Silva
A citizen has the right to live with the minimum
The former Minister of Labour (68) considers the unconditional basic income (BGE) to be an exciting and challenging topic, but it is more a utopia than a reality. José António Vieira da Silva, supports a social model governed by the right to work and the entitlement to the corresponding retirement subsidy, and he fears that the introduction of the UBI model, which has been widely disseminated, could create a ‘bipolar’ society divided into two classes. ECO123: Last year, the one hundredth anniversary of the creation of this ministry was celebrated. Would the introduction of the UBI be a good way …
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11 April
Nº 7 – Love or war in times of virus?
Saturday, 11th of April 2020 Crisis means the “moment of decision” by Francisco Colaço Pedro “We have won the first battle,” the president proclaims to the country. “The enemy is insidious and unpredictable.” Locked in their homes, just as spring begins to blossom, the country listens to the news without any sense of surprise: the state of emergency has been extended. The coronavirus has become a war target. The media report on it in a soap opera of fear, updated at every moment. They call it a public service. In turn, the daily extinction of the species, climate change and …
March, 2020
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29 March
The Trigger of Happiness?
Can culture change our habits? I believe in the transformative power of art. Why? Because the arts have the capacity to divert people from the norm, from normality, and, by going through a different experience they might want to repeat it. An artistic project also provides intuition, sensibility, the capacity to escape from this more materialistic way of seeing things. My intention is to offer artistic objects of great quality to people who have other cultures and who approach this artistic culture in order to draw incredible dividends from it for their everyday lives and for their inner selves. That …
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28 March
TO BE or TO HAVE
Do you look for solutions at Karuna? Yes, yes. That’s why we built it in 1992. It can give us solutions, it can receive solutions. This is not a closed space. It can receive too. What will be happening here this year? We organise silent retreats. If people feel that they haven’t changed internally, Karuna will help to look inside, to be certain about what we are doing, to be correct. Would you like to tell us a story from your childhood? Yes, I would. It’s a story that I guard closely, a story between me and my father. My …
