Extractivismo y neoextractivismo: dos caras de la misma maldición
[Alberto Acosta, 25/07/2012, ecoportal] Aunque resulte poco creíble a primera vista, la evidencia reciente y muchas experiencias acumuladas permiten afirmar que la pobreza en muchos países del mundo está relacionada con la existencia de una significativa riqueza en recursos naturales. Los países ricos en recursos naturales, cuya economía se sustenta prioritariamente en su extracción y exportación, encuentran mayores dificultades para desarrollarse. “- ¿Podrías decirme, qué … Continue reading Extractivismo y neoextractivismo: dos caras de la misma maldición
2016: The Year that Wasn’t Normal
[ETC Group, 30/01/2017] ETC Group’s Long-Awaited 2016 Year-in-Review So you say you want a (fourth) revolution, well you know… Fashionably late and just in time for the Chinese New Year of the Rooster, ETC Group once again offers a tonque-in-cheek wake-up call and look-back at the last thirteen months (spoiler: despite our best hopes, waiting the extra month didn’t make the news any cheerier) Brexit … Continue reading 2016: The Year that Wasn’t Normal
Los robots atacan a Trump
[Marta García Aller, El Independiente, 06 /02/2017] El presidente de EEUU, Donald Trump, añora los años 80. Su política económica y su corte de pelo no dejan lugar a dudas. En los 80 América sí que era grande. La industria manufacturera estadounidense dominaba el mundo, las historias de yuppies la taquilla y decorar rascacielos de color oro aún parecía una buena idea. Tiempos aquéllos. Ahora, … Continue reading Los robots atacan a Trump
How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Donald Trump
[Labor Network for Sustainability] Donald Trump and his congressional Republican allies have taken control of the U.S. government. The result threatens to be devastating for both labor and the climate – not to mention immigrants, African Americans, Muslims, women, children, the elderly, the disabled, LGBTQ people, and many others. The Trump regime is potentially vulnerable because it only represents the interests of the top 1% … Continue reading How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Donald Trump
The Real Circular Economy
[Sharon Ede, December 2016, Complementary Currency Resource Center] How Relocalising Production With Not-For-Profit Business Models Helps Build Resilient and Prosperous Societies This Commons Transition Special Report was written by Sharon Ede, a sustainability ideas transmitter, writer and activist working in Adelaide, Australia. Ede is also a co-founder of the Post-Growth Institute, one of Commons Transition’s most esteemed Partner Projects. We feel that the Post-Growth Institute’s … Continue reading The Real Circular Economy
Everything Donald Trump Did in His First Week as President
By George Zornick and Zoë Carpenter – The Nation It’s been a dizzying week—but it’s crucial to keep an eye on what’s really happening. The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency has been overwhelming—a flurry of executive orders, appointments, bizarre tweets, even stranger press conferences, and public appearances and interviews from the president that generated massive attention and controversy. Whether by design or accident, this … Continue reading Everything Donald Trump Did in His First Week as President
What is Systemic Alternatives?
Español We are experiencing a systemic crisis that can only be solved through systemic alternatives. What humanity is facing is not only an environmental crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis or an institutional crisis. It is a crisis of humanity and of the Earth system. This systemic crisis has been triggered by the capitalist system, whose relentless pursuit of endless growth and profits at … Continue reading What is Systemic Alternatives?
Deuda externa: una pesadilla recurrente
[Alberto Acosta, 16/01/2017] “Los incumplimientos por gobiernos extranjeros de su deuda externa son tan numerosos y ciertamente tan cercanos a ser universales que es fácil tratar sobre ellos nombrando a aquellos que no han incurrido en incumplimiento, que aquellos que lo han hecho. Además de aquellos países que incurrieron técnicamente en incumplimiento, existen algunos otros que pidieron prestado en el exterior en su propia moneda y permitieron … Continue reading Deuda externa: una pesadilla recurrente
¿Qué significa ser de izquierda hoy?
[Edgardo Lander, 12/01/2017] Ser de izquierda hoy implica continuidades históricas básicas con las ideas y los valores de la izquierda desde el siglo XIX, así como rupturas fundamentales con algunas de las que fueron ideas dominantes en el pensamiento y en la práctica de la izquierda en los siglos XIX y XX.[2] En continuidad con los valores y concepciones de los siglos anteriores, ser de … Continue reading ¿Qué significa ser de izquierda hoy?
Let’s face it: we have to choose between our economy and our future
[Christiane Kliemann, 23/01/2015, The Guardian] The new year has just begun and we’re already inundated with horrible news: two new reports have collected further evidence that human economic activity puts life on Earth at risk, and another shocked us with the fact that the 85 richest people on the planet are as wealthy as the poorest 50% – and that the gap between them is … Continue reading Let’s face it: we have to choose between our economy and our future
Un espectro se cierne sobre Davos, el del populismo
[Javier Tolcachier, 16/01/2017, Alainet] Entre el 17 y el 20 de enero próximos, el enclave suizo de Davos-Klosters será sede del 47° Foro Económico Mundial. Ese encuentro funciona como uno de los dos clubes exclusivos donde las principales corporaciones coordinan directivas y lanzan lineamientos estratégicos. Junto al Club Bilderberg – un espacio menos visible y más reducido pero de características similares – el Foro de … Continue reading Un espectro se cierne sobre Davos, el del populismo
América Latina: que caminhos seguir?
Esse é o título da atividade autogestionária com a intenção de provocar e questionar, que a Ação Educativa e a CLACSO propõem, junto a pensadores latinos. Uma das provocações de Edgardo Lander, em suas notas afirma: ” Los retos que se confrontan hoy en la búsqueda de la superación del capitalismo son mayores y bastante más complejos que los que fueron imaginados en los siglos XIX y … Continue reading América Latina: que caminhos seguir?
Rodrigo Duterte: A fascist original
[02/01/2017, Walden Bello, Rappler – Philipines] ‘Like the anti-Marcos resistance 4 decades back, the only certainty members of the anti-fascist front can count on is that they’re doing the right thing. And that, for some, is a certainty worth dying for’ Fascism, someone wrote, comes in different forms to different societies so that people expecting fascism to develop in the “classic way” fail to recognize … Continue reading Rodrigo Duterte: A fascist original
Le nouveau monde qui tarde à apparaître
[11 décembre, Gustave Massiah] La situation semble désespérante. L’offensive des droites et des extrêmes droites occupe l’espace et les esprits. Elle s’étale dans les médias et prétend exprimer la droitisation des sociétés. Il n’en est rien et rien n’est joué. Les sociétés résistent et les contradictions sont à l’œuvre ; ce sont elles qui déterminent l’avenir. Pour comprendre la situation, repartons de la citation de Antonio … Continue reading Le nouveau monde qui tarde à apparaître
Muerto el TPP, ¡viva la liberalización!
[Luciana Ghiotto, Evelin Heidel, 15/12/2016, alainet.org] Trump acaba de anunciar su agenda de los primeros 100 días de gobierno. Uno de los puntos que destacan en materia de estrategia comercial es el abandono del Tratado Transpacífico, o TPP. Así, dejaría de lado el legado de Obama para los EEUU en su disputa comercial con China. A raíz de esta nueva situación, nos preguntamos, ¿el TPP … Continue reading Muerto el TPP, ¡viva la liberalización!
The Degrowth Alternative
[Giorgos Kallis, feb/2015, Great Transition Initiative] Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism. Sustainable development and its more recent reincarnation “green growth” depoliticize genuine political antagonisms between alternative visions for the future. They render environmental problems technical, promising win-win solutions and the impossible goal of perpetuating economic growth without harming the environment. Ecologizing society, degrowthers argue, is not … Continue reading The Degrowth Alternative
Climate Denial, Trumpism, and Neo-Liberalism
[William I. Robinson, 12/12/2016, Alainet] There is more than meets the eye in President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, is a notorious climate change denier. He is part of a coalition of public figures suing over EPA programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boasts that he is “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist … Continue reading Climate Denial, Trumpism, and Neo-Liberalism
Time for degrowth: to save the planet, we must shrink the economy
[August 23, 2016, The Conversation] What is so refreshing about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is that they recognise the inherent tension between economic development and the ecology of our planet. Or so it seems. The preamble affirms that “planet Earth and its ecosystems are our home” and underscores the necessity of achieving “harmony with nature”. It commits to holding global warming below 2℃, and … Continue reading Time for degrowth: to save the planet, we must shrink the economy
EEUU: triunfó la resistencia indígena contra construcción de oleoducto en tierras sagradas de Standing Rock
[La Jornada, 05/12/2016] Diciembre 05 de 2016.- En un triunfo espectacular de la mayor movilización de resistencia indígena en la historia reciente de Estados Unidos, el gobierno federal anunció que no otorgará permisos para continuar con la construcción de un oleoducto en Dakota del Norte que atravesaba tierras sagradas por debajo del río Misuri y que buscará rutas alternativas para este proyecto. El Cuerpo de Ingenieros … Continue reading EEUU: triunfó la resistencia indígena contra construcción de oleoducto en tierras sagradas de Standing Rock
CDB: Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework
In 2012, the CBD Secretariat published Technical Series No. 66: Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Technical and Regulatory Matters comprising two studies: one on the impacts of climate-related geoengineering on biodiversity, the other on the regulatory framework for climate-related geoengineering relevant to the Convention. This update report was prepared for peer review in July 2015, taking account of relevant publications available then. … Continue reading CDB: Update on Climate Geoengineering in Relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Potential Impacts and Regulatory Framework
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