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General Discussion / The importance of social relationships with Robert Waldinger
« on: August 30, 2023, 03:08:38 am »
However, as the German sociologist Kristina Dietz argues22, a key aspect that differentiates green extractivism from neo-extractivism is the discourse used to legitimize the former, since the actors who promote it affirm that it is sustainable and that it is the only possible way to face the climate emergency.
In order for decarbonization to emerge from this perverse logic, it is necessary to decommodify and decolonize it based on a structural challenge. Any just and comprehensive ecosocial transition hypothesis must face India Email List challenge and cannot be anchored only at the local level –as is often the case–, but must also consider the geopolitical level as a priority. This implies incorporating the imperative of degrowth on the part of the global North, as well as the ecological debt that it owes to the peoples of the South, seeking to generate bridges between the actors and critical diagnoses in pursuit of global ecological justice.
The global North must urgently begin to decrease in several areas: in terms of consumption, reduction of the sphere of commodification, dematerialization of production, transportation, and distribution of working hours. Although in many of the degrowth proposals the aforementioned factors appear articulated to a logic of social redistribution, “dematerialization” –that is, the reduction in the intensity of the use of raw materials and energy– is inexorable.
In order for decarbonization to emerge from this perverse logic, it is necessary to decommodify and decolonize it based on a structural challenge. Any just and comprehensive ecosocial transition hypothesis must face India Email List challenge and cannot be anchored only at the local level –as is often the case–, but must also consider the geopolitical level as a priority. This implies incorporating the imperative of degrowth on the part of the global North, as well as the ecological debt that it owes to the peoples of the South, seeking to generate bridges between the actors and critical diagnoses in pursuit of global ecological justice.
The global North must urgently begin to decrease in several areas: in terms of consumption, reduction of the sphere of commodification, dematerialization of production, transportation, and distribution of working hours. Although in many of the degrowth proposals the aforementioned factors appear articulated to a logic of social redistribution, “dematerialization” –that is, the reduction in the intensity of the use of raw materials and energy– is inexorable.