Tag: Climate Change
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Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories
One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a kind of “mental technology”: a way of seeing the world rationally, systematically, and productively. In his account, capitalism emerges from habits…
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Miguel Anxo Bastos — Environmental Problems, Property Rights, and State Intervention
Environmental problems usually derive from a poor definition of property rights. Normally, when environmental policy is justified, concepts such as “externalities” are invoked. Or else people appeal to a very generic concept such as “the environment,” without defining very clearly what “the environment” actually consists of. Because, frankly, I do not know what this thing…
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What is the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership)?
The pro-TTIP version: The anti-TTIP version:
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Mapping the global battle to protect our planet
A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement These struggles have sometimes toppled governments, such as the coup in Madagascar in 2008 that brought “land-grabbing” to global attention when Daewoo was given a lease to grow food and biofuels for export on half the country’s land. But most of…
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Creative writing workshop, some notes
Past Monday 6th of October I attended a creative writing workshop in Gdansk, the city I live in. Although the workshop’s first aim was creative writing, the exposition and discussion was quiet focus on environmental issues, and the way we can write and persuade others about current environmental problems. It seemed to me more focused…