Values, Migration, and Environment: An Essay on Driving Forces behind Human Decisions and their Consequences

Environmental Mobility in a Polarized World: Questioning the Pertinence of the “Climate Refugee” Label for Pacific Islanders

“…Leimgruber’s ( 2004 ) notion of injustice is helpful to understand the West’s relentless efforts to prevent the institutionalization of persons moved by climate change. The technocratic vision that has been guiding conceptions of environmental exploitation since the industrial revolution has, by promoting market liberalism’s dominance on nature, generated a rejection of responsibility on both humanitarian and environmental fronts.…”

“…The technocratic vision that has been guiding conceptions of environmental exploitation since the industrial revolution has, by promoting market liberalism’s dominance on nature, generated a rejection of responsibility on both humanitarian and environmental fronts. Indeed, “we are reaping the fruits of worldwide colonization, of the export of the European way of thinking, of reckless exploitation of the Earth for the benefits of the few” (Leimgruber 2004 :264). He argues that this rejection of their responsibility to protect people moved by climate change is a trademark of their inability to generate a transformation in Western attitudes.…”

“…By avoiding responsibility and encouraging assimilation into globalized neoliberal schemes of production and movement, as is happening with I-Kiribati circular labor migration, international organizations are deflecting from addressing the root causes of global climate change. Leimgruber's (2004) notion of injustice is helpful to understand the West's relentless efforts to prevent the institutionalization of persons moved by climate change. The technocratic vision that has been guiding conceptions of environmental exploitation since the industrial revolution has, by promoting market liberalism's dominance on nature, generated a rejection of responsibility on both humanitarian and environmental fronts.…”

The Food We Waste—Material and Ethical Issues in Geography

“…The price we pay for this is high: societies are increasingly drifting apart between haves and have-nots, and the ecosystem is under growing stress. The next value shift is imminent, and it has to lead us back to survival values driven by sheer ecological necessity [41]. This is not to advocate a return to a pre-industrial lifestyle, but to sharpen our consciousness and recognize the limitations of the ecosystem and our responsibility towards it.…”