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As Climate Crisis Worsens, the Case for Eco-socialism Strengthens - CADTM
<aside> 💡 I would like to direct our attention to the alternatives to the current global climate governance that shifts it away from its colonial legacy to one inspired by Indigenous knowledge and feminist thinking. Adelman offers a different definition of "development" through buen vivir that "offers a path to sustainable development that is ecologically sustainable rather than a means of sustaining growth and profits". Additionally, Adelman argues for a paradigm shift in law that includes "expanded conceptions of property...and rights...It might involve New Materialist approaches that acknowledge the agency of nature, other species". Bond and Basu promote a radical reappropriation of natural capital accounting "so as to develop new tools to better resist exploitative resource extraction" and an ecofeminist approach for geographical and intergenerational justice. Bond takes it further in "As Climate Crisis Worsens, the Case for Eco-socialism Strengthens" by highlighting WoMin's work as an example of African eco-feminist-socialist agency, quoting Leigh Brownhill and Terisa Turner, "African women have been at the forefront of resistance to corporate globalization since neoliberalism struck in the 1980s." "Beyond the Limits" (CIEL, HBS) and "A Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal" list out more principles that call out for drastic changes in climate governance. With all of these alternative ideas in mind, are they enough to drastically change the global climate governance as it currently stands? If there was a spectrum from "conservative" to "radical", where would these alternatives lie on the spectrum? Are some more radical than others?
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