Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics. www.jasonhickel.org
"Let's not forget one thing: A large part of the money that is in our accounts came precisely from centuries of exploitation of Africa."
—Jacques Chirac, former president of France
RT @ProgIntl@twitter.com
PRESENTING 🇨🇺: The Havana Declaration on the New International Economic Order, delivered to the President of the Republic of @DiazCanelB@twitter.com by the esteemed delegates of the Congress on 28 January at the Palace of Conventions in Havana, Cuba.
A shift to nutritious plant-based diets in high-income nations alone would reduce less-necessary production and land use, cutting dietary emissions by 61% and sequestering 98.3 Gt CO2eq, equal to 14 years of current global agricultural emissions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00431-5
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While postgrowth and degrowth are often defined as the “planned” reduction of production and consumption, there is little engagement with what “planning beyond growth” could look like.
That's why we wrote a new working paper with @cedric_durand@twitter.com & @E_Hofferberth@twitter.com. Thread
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MGSchmelzer/status/1620079673001803776
Existing “solutions” to inflation either sabotage working people or sabotage climate goals. But there is another way: with universal public services, we can solve the cost-of-living crisis directly and achieve our climate goals at the same time. https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/cost-of-living-crisis/2023/01/state-end-cost-of-living-crisis-climate-change
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How much lithium is needed to electrify the car-dependent status quo vs transforming the transportation system to increase mass transit, walking & cycling? Our new @cpluscp@twitter.com report finds dramatic differences. We can achieve more mobility with less mining 1/ https://www.climateandcommunity.org/more-mobility-less-mining
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/triofrancos/status/1617898877939781636
Imagine having an economic system where ecologically urgent and socially necessary things (renewable energy, public transit, affordable housing) are not produced simply because rich people cannot make enough profits doing so. Irrational barely begins to describe it.
World Bank and IMF "development policy" boils down to saying that the global South's productive capacity (and labour and resources) should be mobilized by and for the interests of foreign capital, rather than by and for the interests of the South and its people.
When Western powers assassinated Patrice Lumumba in 1961, mass demonstrations broke out in Belgrade and Warsaw. Protestors sacked the Belgian embassies and burned the furniture in the streets.
Solidarity with anti-colonial movements is critically important and we need it back.
This week in 1961, US, British and Belgian forces couped and assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral wealth. Remember Lumumba.
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Say it with me: Hawaiʻi wasn’t peacefully incorporated into the US. It was forcefully invaded 130 years ago today.
The critique of ecomodernism is withering. But Ajl also offers important critiques of, and suggestions for, degrowth that this tendency should consider and take seriously.
This new piece by @MaxAjl@twitter.com is excellent. "This article engages with and critiques dominant theories of political ecology. It finds that with the exception of degrowth, none take imperialism or the global history of accumulation sufficiently seriously." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/22779760221145232
"The notion that the final half-century of British rule was characterised by enlightened governance does not hold water. During this period the population of India suffered a mortality rate that was chronically higher than China’s during its 3 years of famine."
Here is further discussion of the mass mortality crisis that India suffered during 1880-1920, leading to more than 50 million excess deaths. Yes, the crisis also affected the North; and yes, the British colonial administration bears direct responsibility. https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2023/1/7/on-the-mortality-crises-in-india-under-british-rule-a-response-to-tirthankar-roy
RT @DebtforClimate@twitter.com
BREAKING: We are blocking the private airport used by #Davos23 attendees to demand the richest 1% pay their climate debt!
#DebtforClimate is putting pressure on the global elites to demand debt cancellation for the Global South to enable a just transition!
#MakeThemPay https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1614893553955528704
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This data is from 2009. Note that the nature of trade between China and SSA may have changed since then. To know, Kohler’s analysis would need to be repeated for more recent years.