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Is sustainable development possible for humans? - Coggle Diagram
Is sustainable development possible for humans?
Rat Race (Marcuse): we live in a world where everyone is running to the same end, trying to get ahead of each other. Is it possible to break this cycle?
We need to work to live. This is ridiculous. But, how do we end the rat race without upturning society?
Too many material goods, how do we convince people they don't need them? Maybe this is the hardest part.
We must criticize society for continuing the rat race.
This I agree with. Criticizing society and continuing to hold the unsustainable parties accountable is essential to maintaining sustainable development.
Reducing human population - we don't need a large family for work
This is a dangerous mindset.
Latouche describes how we live to work and working gives us an identity. He wants us to cut our energy usage and decrease our work, pushing people to do work they want to do.
Movement from sustenance agriculture to high mass consumption (Rostow).
Discovery of natural resources leads to the start mass development and changes a place forever.
Mining industries come in, Transitional stage, Takeoff stage, Snowball effect into a system of mass consumption
We see this everywhere. It is very prevalent throughout history and still exists today (example, Bolivia).
This theory and practical approach makes it appear that sustainable development is not possible for humans, since this is so common.
Combined with Ricardo and Marx's theories of rent, we can see the Tragedy of the Commons start to emerge
These resources are sent to the global North and West, Rodrik asks if this is a healthy for the local countries
Idea of "Bad Faith" (Suárez-Krabbe).
Coloniality only fits the global North and benefits them.
"Death Project" is the death of people and culture under the guise of coloniality.
You have good intentions but what you are doing in practice is more for your benefit than the ones you claim to be helping
We need decolonial thinking, only then can we (the global North) stop putting our needs and interests above others.
Perhaps when this happens, sustainable development is actually possible and equitable