Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth: An Alliance between Two Movements

In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 51-73

Abstract

Martinez-Alier talks about economic degrowth and environmental justice movements. The Southern environmental justice organizations' potential alliance with the small degrowth movement in Europe cannot mandate an agreement to stop economic growth everywhere. Rather, the alliance must be based on a common perspective against 'debt-fuelled' economic growth and the hegemony of economic accounting in favor of a pluralism of values, the acceptance and support of bottom-up feminist neo-Malthusianism, the defense of human rights and indigenous territorial rights along with the rights of nature, the recognition of the ecological debt, and the critique of ecologically unequal exchange. Adapted from the source document.