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The West's industrialisation came not only from the appropriation of land, resources and bodies from the Global South, but also from the appropriation of the atmosphere.
85% of all emissions are a result of Europe, USA and Canada, yet it is countries in the Global South, which are least responsible, that face the brunt of climate catastrophe.
The argument for climate financing for GS countries is indisputable.
— May 07, 2025 02:35PM
85% of all emissions are a result of Europe, USA and Canada, yet it is countries in the Global South, which are least responsible, that face the brunt of climate catastrophe.
The argument for climate financing for GS countries is indisputable.
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Jax
is on page 82 of 336
'The main contribution that technology makes to growth ... is that it enables capital to expand and intensify the process of appropriation'
Or in the words of Marx:
'The developed machinery thus forces the worker to work longer than the savage does, or than he himself did with the simplest, crudest tools'
So far the book's had a pretty Marxist analysis but he hasn't been name dropped yet. Intentional?
— May 04, 2025 02:51PM
Or in the words of Marx:
'The developed machinery thus forces the worker to work longer than the savage does, or than he himself did with the simplest, crudest tools'
So far the book's had a pretty Marxist analysis but he hasn't been name dropped yet. Intentional?
Jax
is on page 71 of 336
Dualism (humans and nature being separate) gave sanction to the enclosure and privatisation of common land, as land was rendered but a thing to be possessed. And it was enclosure, in turn, that enabled dualism's rise: only once commoners were alienated from the land could they be convinced to imagine themselves as fundamentally separate from the rest of the living world, and to see other beings as objects.
— May 04, 2025 12:44PM
Jax
is on page 23 of 336
Tech won't save us from climate disaster:
'because in a growth-oriented economy, efficiency improvements that /could/ reduce our impact are harnessed instead to advance the objectives of growth - to pull ever-larger swathes of nature into circuits of extraction and production.'
Non-existent tech (e.g. carbon capture) is already being used to justify building more fossil fuel power plants.
— May 04, 2025 10:38AM
'because in a growth-oriented economy, efficiency improvements that /could/ reduce our impact are harnessed instead to advance the objectives of growth - to pull ever-larger swathes of nature into circuits of extraction and production.'
Non-existent tech (e.g. carbon capture) is already being used to justify building more fossil fuel power plants.
