Measures to Steadily Enter the Age of Re-embodiments
Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on February 3, 2010 |
There is some urgency for us to engage in an Age of Re-embodiments. Such an age exacts the re-embodiment of human tread on the Planet in ecocycles and biorythems alike. This is in particular necessary for the technologically-sillily-developed West.
A global process of re-embodiment is incompatible with carbon markets. Karl Polanyi’s political economy is outspoken that the market is inherently disembodied from ecological processes and disembedded from politics.
We need non-market solutions to exit Western ecocidal assumptions. As a first step to this end, Eco Pax Mundi has proposed a global jubliee or erasure of the unfair financial relations entrenched with the grandfathering of ‘rights to pollute’ to the industrial nations in the Kyoto Protocol. In our Jubilee for Climate Justice we then go on to propose a number of intermediate measures to progressively reach the Age of Re-embodiments.
Friends of the Earth – US proposes now to the Obama Administration another five steps to steadily enter the Age of Re-embodiments. These are:
1/ Stop subsidizing fossil fuels.
2/ Spearhead a bold “Marshall Plan”-style effort to fund solutions in developing countries.
3/ Build new rails, not new roads.
4/ Support local agriculture.
5/ Divorce politics from corporate power.
Tags: Age of Re-embodiments > carbon markets > Friends of the Earth > Jubilee for Climate Justice
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