3 Amendments of Jürgen KLUTE related to 2010/2088(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. The committee bBelieves that GDP suffers from many shortcomings - for example, it does not record unemployment, underemployment, inequalities or environmental disasters - particularly bearing in mind the development model followed as a dogma byparticularly bearing in mind the development model followed as a dogma by our economies, aimed first and foremost at maximum profit. GDP does not record unemployment, underemployment, disparities in income distribution or non-market activities as part of economic value creation, environmental disasters our economies, aimed first and foremost at maximum profnvironmental damage resulting from economic activity. The use and management of the statistical indicators for an economy reflect the type of economic development followed by each society. In the dominant development model applied until now, the quality of life, well-being of citizens and environmental changes play a secondary role.;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that, since the GDP records every monetary transaction as positive, and that every destruction or catastrophe (war, pollution, natural disasters, etc.) implies contracting companies (for clean- ups, reconstructions or possibly additional health expenses), therefore, destruction itself (in all its forms) is measured as economic gain by the GDP. On the other hand, initiatives such as the Yasuni ITT project in Ecuador, which proposes not to extract petroleum in order to preserve biodiversity and fight against global warming, is not measured as economic gain by the GDP, in spite of its environmental qualities;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Points to empirical approaches which have been developed in the USA as alternatives to or to complement traditional GDP, namely the 'Index for Sustainable Economic Welfare' (ISEW; Herman Daly and John B. Cobb) and the 'Genuine Progress Indicators' (GPI; Herman Daly, John B. Cobb and Philip Lawn), and the feasibility study on the 'National Welfare Index' (NWI) in Germany (Hans Diefenbacher / Roland Zieschank: Measuring Welfare in Germany. A proposal for a new Welfare index);