From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature By Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo & Ashish Kothari Panchi nadiya pawan ke jhonke Koi sarhad na inhe roke Sarhadein insaano ke liye hai Socho tumne aur maine kya paaya insaan hoke” (Translation) “Birds, rivers and […]
Do we have the stomach for it? by Ashish Kothari “Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live”, said Socrates. Wisdom, or a wisecrack? In a world in which a couple of billion people don’t have adequate nutritious food, while another billion or more fall ill due to overconsumption or a […]
A GND which fails to challenge the hegemony of growth-led development perpetuates the exploitation of the Global South and will be unable to prevent global ecological social collapse In Part I of this two-part article, we discussed various proposals for a Green New Deal (GND) advanced by progressive forces in the Global North, in terms of their impact on the […]
by Vijay Kolinjivadi & Ashish Kothari Without accounting for globalized production, a Green New Deal in the Global North will merely spur the imperialist quest for cheaper resources and labour to satisfy “eco-friendly” consumption. The year 2019 and the first few months of 2020 have thrown up unprecedented ecological crises. Even before COVID-19, ecological crises were raging across the world: […]
