Global warming as ecocide

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Treadmill Of Production

This chapter defines and describes the concept of ecocide, which refers to the destruction of ecological systems and habitats. This includes the everyday activities that contribute to climate change and thus to ecocide on a larger and small scale. The chapter then introduces the notion of state–corporate nexus by examining how industries, supported and abetted by governments, contribute to global warming. Indeed, pro-capitalist ideologies and practices ensure continued economic growth at the expense of ecological limits. As such, effective responses to climate change need to address the deep-seated inequalities and trends within the treadmill of production that go to the heart of the ownership, control, and exploitation of resources. The crime of ecocide is rarely embedded, however, in state legislation. This is, in part, because the state is directly implicated in perpetuating activities that contribute to global warming.

scholarly journals Greening the Financial System in USA, Canada and Brazil: A Panel Data Analysis

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2217
Author(s):  
Ioan Batrancea ◽  
Larissa Batrancea ◽  
Malar Maran Rathnaswamy ◽  
Horia Tulai ◽  
Gheorghe Fatacean ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Financial Systems ◽  
Domestic Credit

Each country designs its own scheme to achieve green financing and, in general, credit is considered to be a fundamental source of greening financial systems. The novelty of this study resides in that we examined green financing initiatives in USA, Canada and Brazil by focusing on major components of the financial systems before, during and after the 2008 world financial crisis. By means of panel data analysis conducted on observations ranging across the period 1970–2018, we investigated variables such as domestic credit from banks, domestic credit from the financial sector, GDP, N2O emissions, CO2 emissions and the value added from agriculture, forest and fishing activities. According to our findings, domestic credit from banks was insufficient to achieve green financing. Namely, in order to increase economic growth while reducing global warming and climate change, the financial sector should assume a bigger role in funding green investments. Moreover, our results showed that domestic credit from the financial sector contributed to green financing, while CO2 emissions remained a challenge in capping global warming at the 1.5 °C level. Our empirical study supports the idea that economic growth together with policies targeting climate change and global warming can contribute to green financing. Over and above that, governments should strive to design sustainable fiscal and monetary policies that promote green financing.

Revisiting forestry’s crystal ball

2009 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 710-714
Author(s):  
Winifred B Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Sustainable Forestry ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Crystal Ball

This paper revisits 3 broad predictions about forestry’s future presented by the author in 1993: the growing importance of products that come from forests, forests increasingly valued for more than the sum of their products and uses, and better appreciation of forests as complex ecological systems controlled by forces larger than humans. These predictions have played out in more dramatic ways than initially envisioned, driven in part by 3 emergent forces: the energy crisis, the ascension of new economic superpowers, and climate change. Examples of these trends and relationships are examined from Canadian and United States contexts. Key words: ecosystem services, forests and climate change, forests and global warming, forest biofuels, forest management trends, sustainable forestry

scholarly journals Disjunctive Constellations: On Climate Change, Conjunctures and Cultural Studies

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (102) ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Planetary Scale ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
The Everyday

The planetary scale of climate change challenges forms of conjunctural analyses that are based around the scale of national politics and culture. Global warming insists on planetary dimensions and invites us to treat humankind as a species that has developed a taste for fossil fuels. Critical cultural studies, and the human sciences more generally, seem founded on the principle that culture and society have historically worked to differentiate humans, and that the task of a critical practice is to investigate this process within and across specific geographical locales. How do we reconcile what seems to be an irreconcilable difference between cultural studies and climate change? Below I argue that, alongside the necessary work of conjunctural analysis, we should remember that the critical human sciences have other capacities that are more suited to negotiating the monstrous diversity of scales that global warming and the microcultures of the everyday articulate. Alongside conjunctural analysis I argue for the relevance of an approach that would posit 'disjunctive constellations' as objects for attention. While it might seem counter-intuitive, the disjunctive constellations I have in mind are at once more modest and (potentially) more expansive than a conjuncture. In my understanding, disjunctive constellations are not in opposition to conjunctures; they may well be the critical kernel at the heart of a conjunctural sensitivity.

Global Warming, Climate Policy, and the Green Paradox

2015 ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Gheorghe H. Popescu ◽  
Elvira Nica
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Temperature Increase ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Green Paradox

Scholarship about the role of managed systems when considering the impacts of climate change, the environmental problem arising from polluting-resource use, the economic aspects of strategies to slow climate change, and the connection between climate change and economic growth has increased and consolidated, especially in recent years. The main objective of this chapter is to explore and describe the effects of climate policy on greenhouse gas emissions, the societal aspects of climate change, the technology-based determinants of green growth, and the productivity impacts of environmental quality. The results of the current chapter converge with prior research on the harmful results of climate change, reduced use of polluting inputs as a consequence of environmental policy, the prevailing governmental policies for fighting global warming, and measures to mitigate the temperature increase by reducing CO2 emissions.

scholarly journals Global Warming Needs No Utopian Science but a Dismal Science

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Jan-Erik Lane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Car Park

As the empirical evidence for the global warming hypothesis augments, not the least for Asia, it is time to take climate change more seriously, starting with major activities to bring down the CO2:s and guard against methane. It is no longer enough with small scale experimental activities, but a major policy push is necessary to get rid of coal, stone or wood, replacing it or constructing carbon capture facilities everywhere. Old polluting buses and trucks must be replaced urgently, diesel abandoned, and the closure of atomic plants stopped. South Asia and Eat as well as South East Asia have now to embark upon major big scale policies to stop deforestation and desertification, protect coral reefs and secure fresh water sources. Traditional renewables must be replaced by modern renewables. And the pollution from the immense car park has to be regulated somehow. What is now at stake for Asia at the most dynamic part of the globe is to fulfil Goal I and Goal II in the COP21 decarbonisation Agreement? And no government can be allowed to renege.

Economic Ecology

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-166
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Calculation Model ◽  
The State ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Fossil Energy ◽  
Global Heating ◽  
Pigovian Tax

The approach to economic ecology is based on a survey of the state of the ecosystem that departs from the state of global warming as summarized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The state of alternatives to fossil energy is reviewed, too. Review of measures to establish a circular economy forms the base of a strategy for transition to carbon neutral economy. The most effective economic intervention towards global heating is identified as a Pigovian Tax on CO2-emission (ET). Evidence on the effectiveness and the state of implementation of ET 2020 is reviewed. For complementary evidence, the ET-calculation model of the Danish Climate Law 2020 is described by representatives of the Danish Climate Council in Appendix by Bendtsen and Stewart.

scholarly journals Cleantech: Prospects and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. VIII-XVII
Author(s):  
Shah Rukh Shakeel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Environmental Footprints ◽  
Industrial Needs

The issue of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, global warming, and their effect on nature and the ecosystem has raised serious concerns. The desire to sustain economic growth and development while keeping a check on the environmental footprints is one of the leading challenges the contemporary world is currently facing. To ensure sustained growth, there is a need for technologies and solutions that has the potential to meet industrial needs without compromising the environment. Cleantech offers a possibility to address these needs in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. Cleantech, being an umbrella term, is often confused and misunderstood, in terms of its definition and scope. This study seeks to explore what cleantech actually is, how this sector came into prominence, what are the driving factors behind its surge, and what kind of socio-economic, technical, and regulatory prerequisites are necessary for the advancement of this sector.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Economic Growth and Environmental Pressures (Legal Aspects)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 127-139
Author(s):  
Galyna V. Moroz ◽  
Olga A. Grytsan ◽  
Oleh A. Vivcharenko ◽  
Nadiia R. Kobetska
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Legal Aspect ◽  
The State ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of The Environment

The problem of the impact of economic development of the world on the state of the environment is quite relevant today. Entrepreneurs usually defend their private interests and try to increase profits in every possible way, without caring about the state of the environment and the future. If in the economically developed countries of the world the government is trying hard to control compliance with environmental legislation and implement a green economy, Ukraine is hopelessly behind, and only in recent years is beginning to actively think about preserving the environment and develop mechanisms to achieve this goal. It is important to explore how the legal aspect can help address the balance between Ukraine's economic development and environmental quality, especially in terms of its impact on climate change, where air pollution, waste generation and energy security are key factors. The purpose of the study was to investigate the legal aspect of the interrelation between economic growth and environmental pressures. As a result, the world experience in finding ways of mutually beneficial activities for the economic development of countries and the preservation of the environment was analysed. The study examined the factors influencing climate change, waste generation and energy security in the projection of economic development. The main principles (strategy) of the state ecological policy of Ukraine for the period up to 2030 are analysed; regulations of Ukraine and the European Union, which regulate the preservation of the environment in terms of the legal effect on solving the problem of the interrelation between economic growth and pressure on the environment.

The All-Consuming Nation Imperiled

2021 ◽  
pp. 420-442
Author(s):  
Mark H. Lytle
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Private And Public

This chapter focuses on what the author calls the Obama dilemma (muddied and muddled by the advent of Donald Trump): how, or do we, sustain economic growth in the era of global warming? It argues that George W. Bush failed substantially to identify the vital issues facing the United States during his presidency. Rather than mire the United States in unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he needed to recognize the perils of climate change, US dependence on Middle East oil, and growing debt in the private and public sectors. Obama, by contrast, confronted all those issues, only to have the oppositional politics of Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. They sought to destroy his presidency even if they damaged the nation in the process. It concludes with a look at fracking as it shifted the geopolitics of energy while threatening to complicate the issue of greenhouse gas emissions.

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