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Prof. Molly Scott Cato: Economics for Justice and Sustainability
- 1. Molly Scott Cato Professor of Strategy and Sustainability Roehampton Business School Economics for Justice and Sustainability
- 2. Stability, Sustainability and Justice: A Vision for a Shared UK Economy
- 3. Land and Climate Change • The commodification of nature through ‘ecosystem services’ • Clean Development Mechanism • Land grabbing for biofuels
- 5. Climate impact of increasing wealth
- 6. Carbon Intensities Now and Required to Meet 450 ppm Target
- 8. Supporting Collective Ownership of Windpower in Denmark High and consistent feed-in-tariff Distance regulation + consumption laws Growth of coops = 84% of turbine ownership, 12% of population
- 9. Multi-scalar organisation of public ownership
- 10. The Bioregional Economy: A Globally Local Proposal • ‘Borrowing your resources from the local natural environment’ • Having a stake in your local place • Ownership and accountability are related
- 11. Objective for the Proposal • To achieve the best possible level of well-being for the least possible use of materials and energy • To take steps through participation and engagement before the crisis provokes more authoritarian responses • To focus the economy on quality rather than quantity
- 12. What is a bioregion? • ‘a unique region definable by natural (rather than political) boundaries’ • A bioregion is literally and etymologically a ‘life- place’—with a geographic, climatic, hydrological and ecological character capable of supporting unique human and non-human living communities. Bioregions can be variously defined by the geography of watersheds, similar plant and animal ecosystems, and related identifiable landforms and by the unique human cultures that grow from natural limits and potentials of the region
- 13. An economic bioregion • A bioregional economy would be embedded within its bioregion and would acknowledge ecological limits. • Bioregions as natural social units determined by ecology rather than economics • Can be largely self-sufficient in terms of basic resources such as water, food, products and services. • Enshrine the principle of trade subsidiarity
- 14. Context is Everything • Western economies are bloated • Message is different in economies with absolute poverty
- 15. The Indigenous Perspective • The land does not belong to us but we belong to the land • Sense of reciprocity and mutuality
- 16. In societies whose very existence depended upon knowing the earth and how to hunt its animals and forage for its foods—the way of life for 99 percent of human history—respect for the natural world and an appreciation of the land itself as sacred and inviolable was surely inevitable. That sensibility was literally so vital that it was embedded in some central place in each culture’s myths and traditions and was embodied in each culture’s supreme spirits and deities. Kirkpatrick Sale
- 17. Life is relational not rational • ‘Our ideas about our place in the world pervade all our thought, along with the imagery that expresses them, constantly determining what questions we ask and what answers can seem possible.’ Mary Midgley • Rationalist, capitalist models of economic life have lead to the ‘disenchantment of the world’
- 18. Find out more www.greeneconomist.org gaianeconomics.blogspot.com Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice (Earthscan, 2009) The Bioregional Economy: Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (Earthcan, 2012)
Editor's Notes
- Twoimages of thesustainabilityeconomy: istheexistingbusinessmodeltherightframework?
- The publication in 2012 of the Resource Revolution McKinsey report world was a sign that the legal battle for the ownership of land worldwide is underway. The report considers that ongoing change in global land ownership patterns and land use is "the next revolution agro-industrial '. The West is concerned about preserving their lifestyle high energy and go to land as a sink for emissions. the first phase of this was the Clean Development Mechanism agreed in Kyoto, but the land has also been seized to produce biofuels. Grano campaign group have represented 17 million hectares of land that has been captured by global agribusiness producing fuel crops between 2002 and 2012. Much of this land is in some of the world's poorest countries, has been diverted to the production of subsistence of the local population in crops to produce energy for the west fuel starvation.
- 'Mean average CO2 emissions are strongly correlated with income: households within the highest equivalised income decile have mean total CO2 emissions more than twice that of households within the lowest equivalised income decile. Emissions from private road travel and aviation account for a high proportion of this differential: aviation emissions of the highest income decile are more than six times that of the lowest income decile.'
- This slide shows what remains of local sourcing in my own local economy, or rather how local sourcing has been revived by the citizens with a pro-environmental attitude. Here we Cottage day, a local orchard that produces juices and cider, trying to divert consumption of orange juice imported. The focus of the bioregional economy is consumption reconnect back to the local soil. In my book I argue that this supports the possibility of accountability in a way that is impossible when we import vegetables or fruits from around the world, because we simply can not understand their impact along the length of the supply chain.
- Siento la necesidad de señalar cómo culturalmente relativos esta obra. En Occidente hemos sido alentados a consumir en exceso y el regreso a los campos es un nostálgico, romántico y utópico esfuerzo de aquellos que siempre han vivido en el lujo. Soy consciente de que esto no es apropiado en las sociedades donde muchos todavía viven en la pobreza absoluta o, como en la imagen, donde la gente ha visto obligado a regresar a la tierra como en la Revolución Cultural China.
- ¿Qué podemos aprender acerca de una relación más estrecha con la tierra de otras sociedades que son más sostenibles que la nuestra? He tratado de imaginar cómo el mundo podría gustar a través de los trazos de la canción de los aborígenes de Australia. La interpretación inicial de estas songlines o pistas seguidas por los antepasados totémicos mientras seguían su viaje creativo a través de la tierra, es como una forma de dar sentido geográfico del lugar. Permiten a los pueblos originarios a encontrar su camino y encontrar fuentes de alimento y agua. Pero también son sistemas de significados, de los mitos que permiten a las identidades individuales, que construyen comunidades, y que facilitan las relaciones entre las comunidades humanas, las comunidades animales, y los recursos que comparten. El tacón antropólogo australiano identifica en el songlines un proceso de utilización de paisaje para facilitar la conexión y relación, para concluir que "la historia y la arqueología han demostrado repetidamente que las culturas que no mantienen conexiones sostenibles a grandes extensiones de tierra lo hacen por su necedad. Tal vez si nos enfocamos menos en autopistas informáticas y prestó más atención al cuidado de la diversidad que se encuentra a lo largo de las canciones Dreaming, cursos de agua y vías de recursos, nuestra propia supervivencia estaría menos amenazada.
- Hay que despojarse de las ataduras de este sofocante del siglo 19 mentalidad.