There is an environmental pollution problem linked to the environmental pollution production market of Adam Smith the world has been trying to solve ongoing since 1987/Our Common Future and later in 2012/RIO +20 The Future We Want. Both the WCED 1987 and the UNCSD 2012 recommended solutions other than CIRCULAR ECONOMY THINKING. They did this as they knew that this thinking is not environmental pollution reduction friendly and it is not pollution-less market/environmentally clean market friendly.
In other words, both the WCED and the UNCSD knew that the working of the traditional economy, circular by assumption or by definition leads to environmental problems, reason why the WCED asked us to go beyond traditional economic thinking, circular or not, to solve the sustainability issues of the day.
Yet today October 2023, the circular economy is presented, contrary to the facts above, as the solution to environmental problems caused by the traditional economy that feeds them or will feed them as now polluting is profit making and cleaning pollution is also profit making. This makes the circular economy a predetermine or science-less approach that can only be supported by alternative academic facts as it is not aimed at fixing the root cause of the environmental problems.
And this raises the question: Is the current circular economy thinking push a current example of academic tunneling?
What do you think? Yes, and why you think so? or No, and why you think so?
In some extend it is promoting sustainability but in developing economies, circular economy is in it rudimentary stage and not yielding it's expectations in the academic circle that will enhance the principles and culture of sustainable development.
Good day Tari, thank you for taking the time to comment.
What do you think the answer of the question is?
If you think, Yes, why do you think so?
If you think No, why do you think so?
I will.reply
Tari, are you sure you are familiar with the concept of academic tunneling as part of cognitive tunneling/willful?...the tendency to ignore or leave out facts already out there that may support or undercut ideas/ policies/prograns/plans...
Since polluting is profit-making and cleaning pollution is also profit-making, the circular economy theory hasn't solved the problem but provided short-term succours. For instance, those in the pollution-cleaning economy such as those converting plastics to other products, need a continuous supply of plastic waste to remain in business. The best way is to address the issue from the source of pollution not bringing back the pollutants into the environment in a modified form.
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