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David C. Korten ist ein amerikanischer Autor und Globalisierungskritiker.

Korten schloss 1955 an Longview’s R. A. Long high school ab. Korten erhielt den M.B.A. und Ph.D. der Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Im Vietnam-Krieg diente er als Hauptmann bei der U.S. Air Force. Nach dem Krieg war er als Professor an der Harvard University tätig. Später arbeitete er mehrere Jahre für die US-Entwicklungshilfe in Asien. 1990 gründete er zusammen mit anderen das People-Centered Development Forum und wurde dessen Präsident.Korten benutzt zwei Modelle um das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Erde zu beschreiben, das „Cowboy“- und das „Raumschiff“-Modell. Dem „Cowboy“-Modell nach betrachten die meisten Menschen die Erde als ein unerschöpfliches Reservoir an Rohstoffen um die menschliche Spezies zu versorgen und dass diese Ressourcen stetig erneuert werden.

In Wirklichkeit ähnelt die Erde laut Korten mehr einem „Raumschiff“ in dem die Ressourcen weitaus stärker begrenzt sind und in der sich der Mensch fortlaufend bemühen muss, diese aktiv zu erneuern und zu erhalten. Wikipedia  

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“For all the advances of modern societies, traditional tribal communities may have better served the essential needs of people for emotional support, nutrition, and exercise than does contemporary society. We don’t need to return to the ways of our ancestors, but we do need to learn from them.”

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“Television has already been wholly colonized by corporate interests, which are now laying claim to our schools. The goal is not simply to sell products and strengthen the consumer culture. It is also to create a political culture that equates the corporate interest with the human interest in the public mind.”

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David Korten buch When Corporations Rule the World

Quelle: When Corporations Rule the World (1995,2015), p. 149

“What are those lessons? Instead of building more single-family dwellings, we should build multigenerational, multifamily homes in vibrant eco-villages that share facilities, tools, labor and resources. Instead of designing cities for self-driving, single-person cars, design them for walking, biking, and public transportation with lots of places for people to meet and greet, mix and mingle. Instead of growing an economy dependent on global movements of money, people, and goods to maximize profit uncoupled from place, create economies that bring people together to maximize health and well-being in the place where they live.”

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How the Economy Affects Our Mental Health, September 18, 2018 https://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/when-profit-drives-us-community-suffers-20180918

“In its literal meaning, capitalism means rule by capital, more specifically rule by the owners of capital for their exclusive private benefit.”

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David Korten buch When Corporations Rule the World

Quelle: When Corporations Rule the World (1995,2015), p. 20

“For those of us who grew up believing that capitalism is the foundation of democracy and market freedom, it has been a rude awakening to realize that under capitalism, democracy is for sale to the highest bidder and the market is centrally planned by global megacorporations larger than most states.”

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The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism (2012)

“In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy and the market economy.”

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The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism (2012)

“There are more idealized definitions of capitalism, but I refer to the real capitalism—the kind we are living with. This capitalism is grounded in an elitist ideology of individualism supported by an institutional system devoted to the concentration and abuse of wealth for the exclusive benefit of a private ruling oligarchy. It is the capitalism that claims to champion democracy and markets even as it destroys them. The capitalism that claims to bring universal prosperity even wile denying it to all but its most favored servants. The capitalism that destroys life to make money and organizes as a suicide economy that destroys the foundations of its own existence—and ours.”

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David Korten buch When Corporations Rule the World

Quelle: When Corporations Rule the World (1995,2015), pp. 20-21

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