Good Living: rethinking the creation of a new lifestyle in the post-Covid-19 age

Unexpectedly the new Covid-19's Pandemic has joined to the multiple interdependent syndromes which configure the accelerated worsening of the global socio-ecological crisis. This suggests the necessity to drastically review the lifestyle in practically all latitudes of the world. The uncertainties generated new civilizing designs almost half a century after the Stockholm Conference. The predictable impacts on the dominant regulation logic of economic and political-institutional systems represent a decisive vector that points in this direction. From this new and disturbing profile of the global crisis, the objective is to analyze the potential contained in the "post-development ecocentric" Good Living's approach to take a renewed position in the most recent ecopolitical debate - now from the perspective of new lines of reflection that emerged with the outbreak of the Covid-19's Pandemic. It uses an essay based on a descriptive stage with a literature review and critical theoretical analysis established on the interface and the post-development proposal of Good Living itself overall using the human-scale development thesis of Manfred Max-Neef and the eco-socioeconomics thesis by Karl William Kapp and Ignacy Sachs. The intention is to create a new line of academic reflection on the cognitive and ethical-political limits of the hegemonic neoliberal ideological thought in face of the increasingly disturbing signs of almost irreversible impairment of the System-Earth.

Impacts of the Sustainable Automotive Chain: Faced with the Perspective of Electromobility in Consolidated Markets in Germany, United States and Japan

Regardless of the global crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the automotive industry is advancing through new and significant global renewals that arise at the heart of some directions of the automotive segment, especially with regard to electrification and vehicular hybridization, as an adaptive response to ongoing environmental issues. Automakers and automotive dealerships show concerns about these global megatrends that should impact the sector and are emphatic, especially regarding the rapid growth of solutions and business proposals that involve changing consumer behavior, especially regarding the sustainability aspect of the product, as well as the new concept of vehicle use, rather than the purchase of the good. The planet does not have the capacity to withstand current patterns of consumption and, consequently, production. Aligned with this need, the present work aims to analyze the impact of the sustainable automotive chain against the perspective of electromobility in the consolidated automotive markets in Germany, the United States and Japan. These countries have shown to lead research on electric and hybrid motors, where it is concluded that electromobility is fully inserted in the automotive industry of Germany and Japan, with a tendency to exclude fossil fuels in a very short time. In the United States there is a coexistence of technologies from internal combustion engines with electric and hybrid combustion, demonstrating that both technologies must coexist together and be improved over time, partially meeting socioenvironmental sustainability. © 2022, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.