Capitalism and ecology
The defining contradiction of capitalism
Capitalism wants or needs what it cannot have: that is, limitless growth on a finite planet. This ecological predicament is the defining contradiction of capitalism in the 21st century, insofar as growth is now causing the problems that growth was supposed to be solving (Sam Alexander, 2018).
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Policies for a Post-Growth Economy
... signals of change ...
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www.sustainable.unimelb.edu.au ... 2016.pdf
Environmental Performance Index, (EPI)
www.epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/2018-epi-report/climate-and-energy
Why Growth Can’t Be Green
New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both.
www.foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/12/why-growth-cant-be-green
Leuenberger and Mehdi: Can Industry Go Truly Green?
www.researchgate.net/publication/312 ...
Limits to Growth
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis L. Meadows 2004
... Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth.
Klimaforandringer og geopolitik - isfri nordvespassage
Canada's New Shipping Shortcut
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USA - Climate Wars
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Michael E. Mann. With a foreword by Bill Nye. Columbia University Press. 2012.
... The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, ...
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Al Gore 2006: An Inconvenient Truth
... An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 American documentary film
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth
Tyskland
Kreibich, Rolf (2006): Zukunftsforschung, Berlin:
Insitut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologieberwertung
(ArbeitsBericht 23/2006)
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References
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Dobbs, Richard, Jeremy Oppenheim, Fraser Thompson, Marcel Brinkman and Marc Zornes (2011) Resource
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2013) Towards the Circular Economy: Economic and Business Rationale for an Accelerated
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation (2014) Towards the Circular Economy III: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply
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European Commission (2015) Circular Economy Strategy
Implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan. 2018 Circular Economy Package.
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European Commission 2018: A Monitoring Framework on progress towards a circular economy at EU and national level. It is composed of a set of ten key indicators which cover each phase – i.e. production, consumption, waste management and secondary raw materials – as well as economic aspects – investments and jobs - and innovation.
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European Commission 2018: A Report on Critical Raw Materials and the circular economy that highlights the potential to make the use of the 27 critical materials in our economy more circular.
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Fischer-Kowalski, Marina and Mark Swilling (2011) Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from
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Giljum, Stefan and Christine Polzin (2009) ’Resource Efficiency for Sustainable Growth: Global Trends and
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United Nations (2015) ‘Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015
70/1 - Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’
... We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and
dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity
and equality and in a healthy environment. ... “The future we want” (resolution 66/288, annex).
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World Risk Society
World at Risk
Ulrich Beck 2007. English ed. Polity Press 2009.
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World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck
Review: ... the distribution of benefits, is replaced by the distribution of dangers. These dangers are the unintended consequences of industrial society such as nuclear accidents, bio-hazards, BSE etc.
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Cradle to cradle
Environment and technology - Education for Sustainable Development
McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. ( 2002 ). Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things. New York, NY : North Point Press.
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Kopnina, H . ( 2013 ). Evaluating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Using Ecocentric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward the Sustainable Development (EAATSD) scale.
Environment, Development and Sustainability, 15 ( 3 ), 607 – 623.
Porritt, J . ( 2005 ). Capitalism: As if the world mattered. London, Earthscan.
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Technology education's and sustainable global futures
Environment, ethics and cultures: design and technology education's contribution to sustainable global futures (2015)
Serie: International technology education studies: Volume 13.
Kay Stables and Steve Keirl Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
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Water
Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis
Brahma Chellaney. Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
... This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security ...
www.books.google.dk/books/about/Water_Peace_and_War ...
Climate change
Global warming controversy
The global warming controversy concerns the public debate over whether global warming is occurring, how much has occurred in modern times, what has caused it, what its effects will be, whether any action should be taken to curb it
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy
Global warming denial
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
Ecosystems and biodiversity
Marine biodiversity–ecosystem functions under uncertain environmental futures
Anthropogenic activity is currently leading to dramatic transformations of ecosystems and losses of biodiversity.
Anthropogenic activities continue to cause significant global climate change (IPCC 2007).
Partly as a consequence of climate change, and also as a direct result of human activities (e.g. harvesting, habitat destruction and pollution), there has been a significant and rapid decline in global biodiversity (Vitousek et al. 1997; Sala et al. 2000). The speed of this decline has been estimated to be over 1000 times greater than rates of extinction calculated from the fossil record (Lawton & May 1995; Pimm et al. 1995, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005).
The rate of sea temperature rise is predicted to increase over the next decades, with the estimated rise in the mean surface temperature for the end of the twenty-first century lying between 1.1°C and 6.4°C (IPCC 2007).
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880130
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC 2007
The fourth assessment report for the IPCC Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Scenarios for the year 2100
Sala O. E., et al. 2000: Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.
Science 287, 1770–1774 (doi:10.1126/science.287.5459.1770).
Extinction rates
Lawton J. H., May R. M. 1995: Extinction rates. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Earth's ecosystems
Vitousek P. M., Mooney H. A., Lubchenco J., Melillo J. M. 1997: Human domination of Earth's ecosystems.
Science 277, 494–499 (doi:10.1126/science.277.5325.494)
www.science.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/494
References
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880130
Miljø, kultur og politik
Globalization and the ecological crisis
Elmar Altvater 1999: "Restructuring the space of democracy: the effects of capitalist globalization and the ecological crisis on the form and substance of democracy" in Global Ethics and Environment, Editor Nicholas Low.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmar_Altvater
Miljø, forskning og politik
N. Oreskes, E. M. Conway, Merchants of doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming, New York, NY:Bloomsbury Press, 2010.
A. M. McCright, S. T. Marquart-Pyatt, R. L. Shwom, S. R. Brechin, S. Allen, "Ideology capitalism and climate: Explaining public views about climate change in the United States", Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 21, pp. 180-9, Nov. 2016.
D. Hicks, "Scientific controversies as proxy politics", Issues in Science and Technology, vol. 33, no. 2, 2017.
J. Howe, Behind the curve: Science and the politics of global warming, Seattle, WA:Univ. Washington Press, 2014.
J. Farrell, "Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change", Proc. National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 1, pp. 92-7, Nov. 2015.
C. Boussalis, T. Coan, "Text-mining the signals of climate change doubt", Global Environmental Change, vol. 36, pp. 89-100, Jan. 2016.
G. Supran, N. Oreskes, "Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014)", Environmental Research Letters, vol. 12, no. 8, Aug. 2017.
J. Worland, Climate change used to be a bipartisan issue. here’s what changed
www.time.com/4874888/climate-change-politics-history
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USA
The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape
Joel Kotkin 20000.
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Edward Glaeser
The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
Leigh Gallagher 2014
Climate, Security and Geopolitics
Rethinking Geopolitics: Climate Security in the Anthropocene
Simon Dalby 2013.
www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1758-5899.12074
Patrick Bigger and Benjamin D. Neimark, Weaponizing nature: The geopolitical ecology of the US Navy’s biofuel program, Political Geography, 60, (13), (2017).
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Tensions Between Environmental, Economic and Energy Security in the Arctic, Northern Sustainabilities: Understanding and Addressing Change in the Circumpolar World.
Daniel Abrahams and Edward R. Carr, Understanding the Connections Between Climate Change and Conflict: Contributions From Geography and Political Ecology, Current Climate Change Reports, 3, 4, (233), (2017).
Philip Conway, Back down to Earth: reassembling Latour’s Anthropocenic geopolitics, Global Discourse, 6, 1-2, (43), (2016).
Sami Moisio, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography, (220), (2015).
Simon Dalby, Geoengineering: The Next Era of Geopolitics?, Geography Compass, 9, 4, (190), (2015).
Anthropocene
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us
Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Verso, 2016.
www.books.google.dk/books ...
Review: ... Readers of Marx & Philosophy Review of Books may be familiar with the “eco-Marxism” practiced over the past two decades by scholars such as Paul Burkett, John Bellamy Foster and Jason W. Moore, ...
www.systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/shock ...
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us
Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. Verso, 2016.
Part Three, “What Histories for the Anthropocene?” presents a series of seven counter-narratives:
1: “Thermocene: A Political History of CO2”:
2: “Thanatocene: Power and Ecocide”:
3: “Phagocene: Consuming the Planet”: Rise of “consumerism”
4: “Phronocene: Grammars of Environmental Reflexivity”:
5: “Agnatocene: Externalizing Nature, Economizing the World”:
6: “Capitalocene: A Combined History of Earth System and World-System”:
7: “Polemocene: Resisting the Deterioration of the Earth Since 1750”:
www.systemchangenotclimatechange.org/article/shock ...
www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/society/events/2017abstracts ...
Capital and labour
Anselm Jappe (Sassari)
Marx and the ‘two-fold nature’ of labour: the ‘pivot’ of his critique of capitalism
Labour, a ‘rational abstraction’? Robert Kurz’s substance of capital and resolving the labour aporia in Marx
www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/society/events/2017abstracts ...
Genetic engineering
Miljø og teknologi - Bioteknologi og fødevareproduktion
Sådan fungerer CRISPR
CRISPR er et genetiske værktøj, der kan ændre på organismers gener.
www.videnskab.dk/teknologi/sadan-fungerer-crispr
Med CRISPR-teknologien kan man udrydde sygdomme, skabe super-afgrøder og lave forbedringer på menneskefostre.
www.videnskab.dk/teknologi/crispr-ny-genteknologi ...
Genome editing tools
Genome editing or genome engineering is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA is inserted, deleted, modified or replaced in the genome of a living organism.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_editing
CRISPR genome editing tools
Thanks to CRISPR, Global Rice Yields Will Increase Significantly
Increased rice yields by as much as 31% with CRISPR-genome editing.
By 2025, ARK estimates that CRISPR-based agriculture will increase the global agriculture industry by $170 billion.
www.research.ark-invest.com/big-ideas-2018
FinTech company and Investment Advisor focused on Disruptive Innovation.
www.twitter.com/arkinvest
CRISPR-Cas9 mediated genome editing in rice, advancements and future possibilities
The successful application and development of CRISPR tools for genome editing in rice will help in regulating gene expression, gene discovery, rice functional genomics and creating new improved traits in rice.
www.researchgate.net/publication/310783110_CRISPR-Cas9 ...
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC 2007:Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change, Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Summary for Policy Makers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Methods of Future and Scenario Analysis
Kosow, Hannah: Methods of future and scenario analysis : overview, assessment, and selection criteria / Hannah Kosow ; Robert Gaßner. DIE Research Project “Development Policy : Questions for the Future”. – Bonn : Dt. Inst. für Entwicklungspolitik, 2007.
www.edoc.vifapol.de ... 2008.pdf
Sunstein C. 2009, Worst-Case scenarios, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.