L’extractivisme a réaffirmé le rôle des pays d’Afrique du Nord en tant qu’exportateurs de nature et fournisseurs de ressources naturelles, en consolidant leur intégration subordonnée dans l’économie capitaliste mondiale.
Northern African countries are key suppliers of natural resources to the global economy, from large- scale oil and gas extraction in Algeria and Tunisia, to phosphate mining in Tunisia and Morocco, to water-intensive agribusiness paired with tourism in Morocco and Tunisia. The commodification of nature and privatisation of resources entailed in these projects has led to serious environmental damages, and forced these countries into a subservient position in the global economy, sustaining and deepening global inequalities.
Jun Borras, Jennifer Franco, Clara Mi Young Park, Mads Barbesgaard, Yukari Sekine, Ye Lin Myint, Thant Zin
02 Marzo 2018
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Dominant approaches to climate change mitigation are putting new pressures on small farmers and village dwellers, justifying dispossession by powerful actors who cast villagers' traditional ways of life as ecologically destructive or economically inefficient. In order to address the twin challenges of agrarian justice and climate justice, it is critical to understand the way new conflicts and initiatives intersect with old conflicts and the way they are compounded by undemocratic settings, and inequality and division along fault-lines of gender, ethnicity, class, and generation.
En suivant le paradigme militaro-corporatif, nous pouvons construire des murs plus hauts, des frontières plus militarisées, des sociétés plus surveillées, mais voulons-nous vraiment vivre dans un tel monde ?
Si seguimos el paradigma militar-corporativo para afrontar el cambio climático, podemos construir muros más altos, fronteras más militarizadas, sociedades más vigiladas; pero, ¿acaso será un mundo en el que queramos vivir?
Cambio climático, S.A. es un trabajo del Transnational Institute que ahora FUHEM Ecosocial publica en castellano. Nick Buxton, uno de los autores cuenta en esta entrevista cómo los ejércitos y las corporaciones, con el consenso de ciertos grupos políticos, buscan hacer del cambio climático un gran negocio del que lucrarse, mientras profundizan la exclusión de las y los desposeídos, expuestos a las peores consecuencias.
La Marea - La acumulación de gases de efecto invernadero en la atmósfera y los océanos es producto de un modelo productivo con responsables y víctimas.
Deshalb ist die Interpretation des Klimawandels in ein Sicherheitsproblem so irritierend. Sie schafft eine doppelt Ungerechtigkeit. Nicht nur leiden diejenigen, die am wenigsten mit der Verursachung des Klimawandels zu tun haben, am meisten von den Folgen des Klimawandels, sondern sie werden nun auch noch angesichts dieser klimatischen Auswirkungen mit Sicherheitreaktionen konfrontiert.
Convertir el cambio climático en un problema de seguridad crea una doble injusticia. Quienes menos culpa tienen del cambio climático no solo son los que más sufren sus consecuencias, sino que, además, están siendo puestos en el punto de mira con las respuestas de seguridad a los impactos climáticos mismos.
TNI is one of the major partners of the International Peace Bureau Congress on Military and Social Spending that will be held in Berlin. TNI will be organising workshops on the links between militarism and climate change, extractivism, racism and the rise of the homeland security industry.
In December 2015, 195 countries gathered in Paris and adopted the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal. They expressed their joint willingness to keep the global average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, but they did not adopt any explicit emission reductions targets against which they could be held accountable for.
The Paris COP21 talks failed to deliver a meaningful result, judged from either a scientific or social justice point-of-view. However it did reveal the presence of an increasingly sophisticated and powerful climate justice movement that heralds the most hope for a just response to the global climate crisis.
Los ejecutivos empresariales y los negacionistas que se movilizan en contra de acuerdos internacionales firmes sobre el cambio climático han sido, justamente, el foco de atención de muchas personas preocupadas por la crisis climática. Pero puede que otro grupo de élites —aquellas que sí creen en el cambio climático— haya bloqueado aún más toda solución eficaz a la crisis.
Joan Martinez‐Alier, Leah Temper, Daniela Del Bene, Arnim Scheidel
04 Febrero 2016
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Changes in the economy economy in terms of growing flows of energy and materials are leading to the existence of a rural and urban global movement for environmental justice. And not only complaints, there are also many successful examples of stopping projects and developing alternatives.
Book review by Robert J. Burrowes of The Secure and the Dispossesed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World. The book is edited by Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, who are both associated with TNI.
Open Democracy interviewed Ben Hayes and Nick Buxton, who argue that the climate change agendas of governments and corporations have securitised and militarised environmental policies to the world's detriment.
Corporate executives and climate skeptics that mobilise against strong international climate change agreements have rightly been the focus of attention of many people concerned about the climate crisis. But another group of elites—those who actually believe in climate change —may paradoxically have done more to block effective solutions to the crisis.
With some 800 bases around the globe, it is no surprise that the U.S. military is the world's biggest consumer of petroleum. What is perhaps more surprising is that this so-called carbon bootprint has been completely exempted from international climate agreements, including the one currently being finalized at COP21 Paris Climate Change Conference.
