Paddy Le Flufy
Paddy Le Flufy has had a varied career. After studying mathematics at Cambridge University and qualifying as an accountant at KPMG, he spent years living in remote places. He has travelled with economic migrants, been taught to fish by rural Mozambicans, and lived with Hadza hunter-gatherers. He was taught by traditional wisdom-keepers in the Peruvian Amazon for a year, funded by the Royal Geographical Society. In 2015, Paddy paused his travels to focus on researching how we can redesign society to avert the impending environmental catastrophe. Building Tomorrow: Averting Environmental Crisis With a New Economic System is his first output from this period, and he is now publishing a series of essays on societal transformation. To keep updated about his latest publications, sign up to Paddy’s substack.
From Expansion to Harmonisation | a new economic trajectory
Journal Article
“If we do not stop degrading the natural environment, it will collapse, so we must harmonise our global society with the natural world. If we allow global inequalities to remain embedded, we will perpetuate hardship on a vast scale, so we must harmonise our human cultures with one another. And if we continue to desire ever-increasing consumption without regard to its negative effects, we will suffer terrible consequences, so we must harmonise our aspirations with our opportunities.”