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> Ultimately, my goal is challenging the hegemony of scientific knowledge and neoliberal “solutions” to climate change by bringing to light the depth and breadt
by fouc 5y ago
> Ultimately, my goal is challenging the hegemony of scientific knowledge and neoliberal “solutions” to climate change by bringing to light the depth and breadth of different ways of knowing the world. My central tenet: We need to engage all relevant knowledge systems to find enduring solutions to our shared predicament. This includes revaluing and repatriating Indigenous knowledge and local knowledge systems, both through policy changes and Indigenous activism, within a world from which they were systematically disqualified and subjugated.
A worthy goal.
- jprupp 5y ago[flagged]
- estaseuropano 5y agoYou seem to have very little idea of what Marxism is, so might want to research a bit further on this part before making such a black-and-white conclusion. What happens in China today has little to do with Marxist ideology, but rather is a plain and simple dictatorship that has long adopted a capitalist economy. Both on the political and economic front China has little Marxist ideology left, except for the language they adopt.
- mantas 5y agoThe problem is that every single Marxism-ish attempt goes the same way.
- adwn 5y ago> social justice [...] Marxists How did you get from Social Justice to Marxism? Those are two different ideologies with different goals and little overlap, except that both require strong, authoritarian states to achieve their agendas.
- mantas 5y agoWhat in social justice is not marxistish?
- cinquemb 5y agoI moved to and have been living in an EM country for ~6 years and tell my wife (whose from the EM country) something like this occasionally: "If the leaders want to adapt "green" policies uber alles, they'll be hanged in the street with their friends and families faster than takes for their doomsday predictions to come into fruition than the current status quo of slow progress. If they really want people to adapt "better" solutions, they would need to make them cheaper and more accessible than what exists today". I'd argue the same is true for even DM countries who have populations that have grown to expect even more…
- beebeepka 5y agoYou could've just said "china = bad; people I don't like = bad" and spared everyone's time. Nothing of worth would've been lost
- mantas 5y agoThe problem is not China. The problem is all sorts of Marxistish ideologies taking hold in West.
- modo_mario 5y agoTo pop your bubble: How much CO2 does the average american emit compared to the average European or Chinese person? >we tackled those successfully in free market industrial societies Those were all government regulations. CFC's didn't magically disappear trough a tiny fraction of the world knowing how they impacted the ozone layer and being rational consumers.
- Zababa 5y agoI have honestly no idea of what they mean by this.
- beebeepka 5y agoI think it means stop ignoring knowledge coming from formally uneducated people. Worthy cause, if so
- bojan 5y ago> I think it means stop ignoring knowledge coming from formally uneducated people. The problem is that the signal-to-noise ratio there is very low, and it takes a lot of patience and effort to extract the knowledge.
- Zababa 5y agoWouldn't this be more "unformally educated" people? Since they're talking about indigenous people, that have a form of knowledge but that knowledge doesn't fit the "formal knowledge" as in "knowledge of people that go to college or read book"? Though even with that I don't know what it's supposed to mean. That indigenous people will be "sacrificed" because our solutions won't protect their way of living? That's probably true, however I thought that this was always assumed that the neoliberal solutions would be best at protecting the neoliberal societies, and not the other. My tentative of translation: "Indigenous people's way of life are not taken into account currently when considering solutions to climate change, and I want to change that.". The idea seem noble, but considering how little everyone (individual, companies, "the Establishment", shape-shifting lizards) is doing currently, I don't think indigenous people's way of life is our priority.