Sustainability: from social democracy to neoliberalism

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Sustainability: from social democracy to neoliberalism

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2. Sustainability 1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism Our Common Future Changing ideas of freedom The
4. Sustainability, a definition “The ability to meet present needs of people without compromising needs of future
5. Sustainability 1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism Our Common Future Changing ideas of freedom The
6. The Origins of Our Common Future Anti-colonial movements of 1960s and 70s 2. The spread of
7. Sustainability 1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism Our Common Future Changing ideas of freedom The
8. Sustainable development to Sustainable Growth 1. Neoliberal capitalism and the transformation of sustainability 2. Sustainability through
9. Welfare state/social democracies 1. 1930s-1970s, government and public (collective) obligation to Correct failures of unfettered capitalism
10. What is Neoliberalism?
11. Myth of reduced government Wealth transfer to capital and prosperous upper middle classes Slash social programs
12. Sustainability 1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism Our Common Future Changing ideas of freedom The
13. Corporate/Market Environmentalisms 1. Create private property rights to conserve environment 2. Big corporations going “sustainable” or
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Sustainability
1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism
Our Common Future Changing ideas

of freedom
The three E’s New govt role in society
Link to production and equality Neoliberalism as policy
Sustainable development World Bank and IMF
Intellectual origins of sustainability Reducing poverty?
Anti-colonialism
Environmental movement Corporate environmentalism
Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb Achievements of Sustainability
Environmentalism of the Poor
UN Declaration of Human Rights
Ecological Economics and Limits to Growth
Evolution of Sustainability
Development and justice versus growth
Neoliberal Capitalism
History of neoliberalism
The apotheosis of the market

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Sustainability, a definition
“The ability to meet present needs of people without

compromising
needs of future generations”
Goal: improve quality of human life by understanding limits and constraints
of living and non-living resource bases

The Three E’s.
Ecology
Equality
Economy

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Sustainability
1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism
Our Common Future Changing ideas

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The Origins of Our Common Future
Anti-colonial movements of 1960s and 70s
2.

The spread of environmental movement around world
a. Concern with invasive technologies that don’t take into account
limits
b. Concern with unbridled plunder of resources by TNC’s
c. The population bomb (Paul Ehrlich)
d. Environmental Justice struggles
3. UN Declaration of Human Rights, 1947
4. Ecological Economics as a field within Economics

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Sustainability
1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism
Our Common Future Changing ideas

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Sustainable development to Sustainable Growth
1. Neoliberal capitalism and the transformation of

sustainability
2. Sustainability through market capitalism and consumer choice
3. Responsibility for sustainability shifted onto the individual consumer

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Welfare state/social democracies
1. 1930s-1970s, government and public (collective) obligation to
Correct

failures of unfettered capitalism
2. What kind of corrections and interventions?
3. Role of social movements and worker’s movements in bringing about
reforms. Many were asking for more radical systemic change.
Shift to neoliberal capitalism (much in common with 19th century)
Profit squeeze
“Freedom” in midst of cold war. Notion of creeping socialism

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What is Neoliberalism?

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Myth of reduced government
Wealth transfer to capital and prosperous upper middle

classes
Slash social programs and public goods and remove protections
Remove regulations on finance industry?speculation
Remove rules and regulations on production: worker safety to
environmental protection
6. Assist capital’s search for cheap nature
and cheap labor through free markets, tax breaks and anti-union
policies
7. Consequences: increased inequality, precarious living due to loss of
public services, obdurate poverty, ramped up exploitation of
natural resources and thus ecological deterioration

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Sustainability
1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalism
Our Common Future Changing ideas

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Corporate/Market Environmentalisms
1. Create private property rights to conserve environment
2. Big corporations

going “sustainable” or “green”
3. Produce for an environmentalist market
Results:
1. Seen as easy solution, feel-good “ethical” consumerism.
2. Shifts our attention away from the environment as a public
good that we all must protect to an individual consumer choice
3. Not about questions of political and economic power or
social inequality generated by unfettered capitalism
4. The savior phenomenon—Elon Musk
5. Repression and violence against environmental justice movements

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Sustainability: from social democracy to neoliberalism

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Sustainability1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalismOur Common Future Changing ideas

Sustainability, a definition“The ability to meet present needs of people without

Sustainability1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalismOur Common Future Changing ideas

The Origins of Our Common FutureAnti-colonial movements of 1960s and 70s2.

Sustainability1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalismOur Common Future Changing ideas

Sustainable development to Sustainable Growth 1. Neoliberal capitalism and the transformation of

Welfare state/social democracies1. 1930s-1970s, government and public (collective) obligation to Correct

What is Neoliberalism?

Myth of reduced governmentWealth transfer to capital and prosperous upper middle

Sustainability1987 Brundtland Commission Report Continue Neoliberal capitalismOur Common Future Changing ideas

Corporate/Market Environmentalisms 1. Create private property rights to conserve environment 2. Big corporations

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