Climate change and inequalities; the need to reanalyze crises from the world-ecology
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Capitalist World-Ecology, Climate change, Colonial domination, Ecology-world, InequalitiesAbstract
The climate and ecological crises are undoubtedly among the most serious challenges of our time. However, they are not decoupled from the social, economic and health crises we are currently facing. The separation of social and ecological aspects that reflects Cartesian dualism is reductionist and limiting. It is therefore necessary to reanalyze current and urgent issues such as climate change from new comprehensive and interdisciplinary conceptual frameworks such as world-ecology. Climate change originates with the Industrial Revolution and is associated with the whole system of socio-ecological exploitation that consolidates the current capitalist world- ecology. Historical and current GHG emissions show a great disproportion between countries of the centre and the periphery and reveal traces of colonial domination. Climate change is one of the crises originating from and linked to the prevailing world-ecology, and therefore linked to inequalities, centre-periphery domination, and capital accumulation.
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