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Australia's Enviro‐Economic Dilemma and the World View Of Buddhism
Author(s) -
Daniels Peter L
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1988.tb01278.x
Subject(s) - buddhism , rationality , dilemma , idealism , context (archaeology) , value (mathematics) , project commissioning , sociology , social science , political economy , economics , publishing , political science , environmental ethics , law , epistemology , geography , philosophy , archaeology , machine learning , computer science
Australia sits uncomfortably in a troubled and changing world economy with new criteria for the direction of flow of material wealth between nations. Ecocatastrophe based fears may be far less powerful forces of value confrontation than potential social conflict from loss of national income and deepening inequality in in the allocation of resources. The world view of Buddhism offers one Utopian means of resolving the current Australian enviro‐economic dilemma. The inevitably of radically different economic circumstances, and the rationality and idealism of the social and environmental dimensions of a Buddhist solution, are briefly examined in the Australian context.