Seeds of Violence, Seeds of Hope:

Exploring Economics in an Ecological Context

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Ed Dreby, Editor; Design by Kim Carlyle

Volume II: Exercises

CONTENTS

Section 1—Basic Concepts and Key Points

Some Key Points About the Human-Earth Relationship 9

Features of Modern Industrial Economies 10

Some Key Points about Modern Industrial Economies 16

Challenges and Opportunities for Friends 17

Section 2—Experientially-oriented Exercises

Quotes and Queries for Worship 25

Getting Started 28

Trees as Metaphors 30

Policy for Environmental Protection 32

Ecological Footprint 33

The King and the Wise Man 35

Economics and the Heinz Dilemma 39

Equality and Structural Violence 41

Push-Me-Pull-You 42

Necessary Losses 43

Section 3—Conceptually-oriented Exercises

Contrasting Economic Perspectives 47

Markets and Bar Codes 50

Examining the Enhanced Circular Flow Diagram 52

Smithville’s Fabled Economic Growth 54

The Eleventh Disk 61

Toward A More Ecologically Integrated Economics 65

The materials in Volume II were developed or assembled by Ed Dreby and Margaret Mansfield for workshops at Chestnut Hill, Green Street, and Towanda Monthly Meetings in early 2005, and at the Friends General Conference Gatherings of 2005 and 2006. The FTE Project thanks all those who participated for their contribution to the development of these materials. •