> Ultimately, my goal is challenging the hegemony of scientific knowledge and neoliberal “solutions” to climate change by bringing to light the depth and breadth of different ways of knowing the world. My central tenet: We need to engage all relevant knowledge systems to find enduring solutions to our shared predicament. This includes revaluing and repatriating Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge systems, both through policy changes and Indigenous activism, within a world from which they were systematically disqualified and subjugated.
No, it is social justice ideological drivel. You adopt this belief system at your own peril. I don't know why I need to remind people: Marxists are the baddies. If you are a Marxist, you are the baddie. Start thinking more and feeling less, and you'll start recognising destructive ideology.
Do you want to tackle greenhouse gas emissions: get China to abandon Marxist ideology, become wealthier, and when they don't have to worry about survival, they'll perhaps start paying more attention to their own greenhouse gas emissions. That will help a lot as more than a quarter of al greenhouse gas emissions come from China.
The USA and Europe are responsible for another quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, but at least America and Europe are taking measures to improve the situation. These are societies with free markets and wealth, who can deal with the reduction of market competitivenes that comes with curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. It is an issue because we voluntarily handicap our industries to the benefit of China's who don't restrain themselves. Perhaps once we all decide to play the same game with carbon, we can move to the next step, without a cheater at the table.
Human-induced greenhouse gas accumulation is a byproduct of markets and technology that have improved our lives in many ways. Read Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now if you need evidence to this, as he does a great job compiling it. All our technological advances have had undesirable side effects, and we tackled those successfully in free market industrial societies. Look at the air and water pollution levels we used to tolerate in our cities throughout the twentieth century.
Greenhouse gas emissions will be curtailed, like it already happened with CFC emissions that threatened the ozone layer, and lead, and mercury, and air particulatr matter, and water pollutants, and asbestos, etc., you get the point.
The issue of grenhouse gases is challenging, but it will be solved. That solution will come from civilizations where free markets are the main driver of wealth, and governments are democratic, not from Marxist shitholes.
How did you get from Social Justice to Marxism? Those are two different ideologies with different goals and little overlap, except that both require strong, authoritarian states to achieve their agendas.
I moved to and have been living in an EM country for ~6 years and tell my wife (whose from the EM country) something like this occasionally: "If the leaders want to adapt "green" policies uber alles, they'll be hanged in the street with their friends and families faster than takes for their doomsday predictions to come into fruition than the current status quo of slow progress. If they really want people to adapt "better" solutions, they would need to make them cheaper and more accessible than what exists today".
I'd argue the same is true for even DM countries who have populations that have grown to expect even more…
You seem to have very little idea of what Marxism is, so might want to research a bit further on this part before making such a black-and-white conclusion. What happens in China today has little to do with Marxist ideology, but rather is a plain and simple dictatorship that has long adopted a capitalist economy. Both on the political and economic front China has little Marxist ideology left, except for the language they adopt.
To pop your bubble: How much CO2 does the average american emit compared to the average European or Chinese person?
>we tackled those successfully in free market industrial societies
Those were all government regulations. CFC's didn't magically disappear trough a tiny fraction of the world knowing how they impacted the ozone layer and being rational consumers.
Wouldn't this be more "unformally educated" people? Since they're talking about indigenous people, that have a form of knowledge but that knowledge doesn't fit the "formal knowledge" as in "knowledge of people that go to college or read book"? Though even with that I don't know what it's supposed to mean. That indigenous people will be "sacrificed" because our solutions won't protect their way of living? That's probably true, however I thought that this was always assumed that the neoliberal solutions would be best at protecting the neoliberal societies, and not the other.
My tentative of translation: "Indigenous people's way of life are not taken into account currently when considering solutions to climate change, and I want to change that.". The idea seem noble, but considering how little everyone (individual, companies, "the Establishment", shape-shifting lizards) is doing currently, I don't think indigenous people's way of life is our priority.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 48.6 ms ] threadA worthy goal.
Do you want to tackle greenhouse gas emissions: get China to abandon Marxist ideology, become wealthier, and when they don't have to worry about survival, they'll perhaps start paying more attention to their own greenhouse gas emissions. That will help a lot as more than a quarter of al greenhouse gas emissions come from China.
The USA and Europe are responsible for another quarter of greenhouse gas emissions, but at least America and Europe are taking measures to improve the situation. These are societies with free markets and wealth, who can deal with the reduction of market competitivenes that comes with curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. It is an issue because we voluntarily handicap our industries to the benefit of China's who don't restrain themselves. Perhaps once we all decide to play the same game with carbon, we can move to the next step, without a cheater at the table.
Human-induced greenhouse gas accumulation is a byproduct of markets and technology that have improved our lives in many ways. Read Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now if you need evidence to this, as he does a great job compiling it. All our technological advances have had undesirable side effects, and we tackled those successfully in free market industrial societies. Look at the air and water pollution levels we used to tolerate in our cities throughout the twentieth century.
Greenhouse gas emissions will be curtailed, like it already happened with CFC emissions that threatened the ozone layer, and lead, and mercury, and air particulatr matter, and water pollutants, and asbestos, etc., you get the point.
The issue of grenhouse gases is challenging, but it will be solved. That solution will come from civilizations where free markets are the main driver of wealth, and governments are democratic, not from Marxist shitholes.
How did you get from Social Justice to Marxism? Those are two different ideologies with different goals and little overlap, except that both require strong, authoritarian states to achieve their agendas.
I'd argue the same is true for even DM countries who have populations that have grown to expect even more…
EM = Emerging Market DM = Developed Market
>we tackled those successfully in free market industrial societies
Those were all government regulations. CFC's didn't magically disappear trough a tiny fraction of the world knowing how they impacted the ozone layer and being rational consumers.
Worthy cause, if so
The problem is that the signal-to-noise ratio there is very low, and it takes a lot of patience and effort to extract the knowledge.
My tentative of translation: "Indigenous people's way of life are not taken into account currently when considering solutions to climate change, and I want to change that.". The idea seem noble, but considering how little everyone (individual, companies, "the Establishment", shape-shifting lizards) is doing currently, I don't think indigenous people's way of life is our priority.