Skip to main content
Best News Website or Mobile Service
WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards Worldwide 2022
Best News Website or Mobile Service
Digital Media Awards Worldwide 2022
Hamburger Menu

Advertisement

Chasing Scarcity

46:00 Min
Technology is great, but human conditioning is better. Mongolian herders, living for generations in a scarce environment, school urbanites on how they are able to do more with nothing, and be happy.
Chasing Scarcity

Chasing Scarcity - S1E1: Finite Resources

18 Mar 2020 02:00pm
Technology is great, but human conditioning is better. Mongolian herders, living for generations in a scarce environment, school urbanites on how they are able to do more with nothing, and be happy.

Chasing Scarcity

About the show:

Aaron Maniam, public servant and scholar, takes on one of the biggest questions of our time: Is scarcity real?  Scarcity, for so long a fundamental assumption in Economics, is due for a reassessment. The ubiquity of technology and the changing needs and wants of a generation coming into fore are the impetus; the urgency - an increasingly violent planet. We live in a time of unprecedented abundance, yet, scarcity persists. As a tool, technology has brought abundance to millions (see China) but it has also been used as a source of consumption that creates other wants. What must we do for a sustainable and equitable future? One person cannot answer every nuance of this complex question, but Aaron’s search takes him from the vast exteriors of Mongolia to the narrow interiors of the human psyche. Out of which, came a research paper, peer-reviewed, and housed online @ www.chasingscarcity.com, inviting as many people to the conversation as possible.

Latest Episodes

Advertisement

You May Also Like

Advertisement