The green economy: Environment, sustainable development and the politics of the future

O Capitalismo Fóssil e seu Ambiente Social e Natural

“…Por ser desigual o acesso à natureza (aos recursos naturais e aos 'sumidouros'), a relação societária do homem com a natureza passa a ser carregada de conflitos. As "pegadas ecológicas" são de tamanhos muito distintos em diferentes países e regiões do mundo, indicando a existência de profundas desigualdades de renda e riqueza (OPSCHOOR, 1992;WUPPERTAL INSTITUT FÜR KLIMA, 1995). Portanto, no plano da ecologia, os desequilíbrios e as injustiças devem levar em conta as contradições de classe e a produção da desigualdade no processo de acumulação do capital.…”

Ecological Justice and the Extinction Crisis

“…At first it seems that Ziegler (2007), who critiques Hayward's ES proposal, equates ES with eco-space. However, in the same paper he traces ES back to Hans Opschoor (1992), who originated the environmental space indicator, and to reports by the Friends of the Earth, even though these reports are also associated with the environmental space approach. This confusion is clarified in a later publication in which Ziegler (2009) distinguishes between Umweltraum -that is, environmental space -and footprint space which is based on the ecological footprint indicator, which is in turn usually linked to ES.…”

The Sustainable Development of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor: Synergy among Economic, Social, and Environmental Sustainability

“…Current acknowledgment of the prevalent economic significance of environmental conditions has forced two transformations. Firstly, the new standard of scale must be added to the conventional criterion of efficiency of use and distribution of resources [30,31]. Secondly, markets are perpetually scarce as a distributive system when natural resources are at risk [6].…”