Dejar el crudo en tierra o la búsqueda del paraíso perdido: Elementos para una propuesta política y económica para la Iniciativa de no explotación del crudo del ITT

Abstract

"Todos colaboramos para un mismo resultado, unos consciente y consecuentemente, otros sin saberlo, como los que duermen, creo, de quienes Heráclito dice que son operarios y colaboradores de lo que sucede en el universo. Cada uno colabora en cosa distinta, sobre todo el que se queja e intenta contravenir y eliminar lo que sucede: pues también de gente tal precisa el universo. Queda entonces que pienses en qué filas quieres formar tú." Marco Aurelio, emperador romano (121-180)Resumen: El documento presenta la propuesta ecuatoriana como una polí-tica pública viable tanto desde el punto de vista nacional como internacional. Se Polis, Revista de la Universidad Bolivariana, Volumen 8, Nº 23, 2009, p. 429-452 1 En este artículo se presentan opiniones personales que no comprometen a las instituciones donde los autores desarrollan sus actividades. * FLACSO-Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

Equity, climate justice and fossil fuel extraction: principles for a managed phase out

“…To answer this, the proposed replicability of the proposal was restricted to biologically and culturally sensitive tropical forests (Larrea, 2009). This restriction would obviously limit the approach's value as a general solution to fossil fuels and climate change; meanwhile, several writers pointed out that Ecuador's duty to respect rights should not be contingent on its international relations (Acosta et al, 2009;Lang, 2013). 8.…”

Post-apartheid electricity policy and the emergence of South Africa’s renewable energy sector

“…The compensation was supposedly in recognition of the supply of environmental services generated by the YNP from which the entire planet benefited. The Initiative was initially celebrated as an innovative proposal that offered an alternative to global environmental problems as it would promote the transition from the current development model, based on oil extraction, to a new strategy based on equality and sustainability (Acosta, Gudynas, and Vogel 2009;Larrea and Warnars 2009;Rival 2010;Vogel 2010).…”

Preliminary Material

“…Despite the heavy weight of arguments against primary-export accumulation that gave rise to the theory of the 'resource curse' (Acosta, 2009), it remains undisputed in countries that are predominantly extractivist economies, to such an extent that it seems the real curse is actually their inability to face the challenge of constructing alternatives to the continuation of primary-export accumulation and its undeniable failures. Once these pathologies have been recognised, we can present concrete recommendations to address them.…”

“…The third major influence on Good Living has been 'de-growth' , which is based on the idea that we do not need to produce and consume more to live better. This idea has been fundamental to the 'ecologists' Good Living argument that, for development's sake, the exploitation of natural resources (oil, water, wood, biodiversity) should be renounced, and that we should move towards prioritising resource conservation over the generation of economic benefit (Acosta et al, 2009;López-Flores, 2014).…”