By Wolfgang Sachs
ISBN-10: 1783603402
ISBN-13: 9781783603404
Wolfgang Sachs anticipated as a lot approximately two decades in the past in Planet Dialectics, his now-classic number of trenchant and chic explorations of the challenge inherent within the West’s courting to nature and social justice. having a look particularly at such key recommendations as potency, velocity, globalization, sustainability, and improvement, Sachs indicates that our present economic climate is totally incompatible with actual sustainability and the search for justice one of the world’s humans. simply through taking again the suggestions of sustainability and justice, and acknowledging that they call for wholesale switch to the West’s growth-obsessed economics, do we make genuine swap for solid within the world.
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The popularity of this doctrine derives from the tragic fallacy that modern technologies possess the innocence of tools. Are they not basically comparable to a hammer that one can choose to pick up or not but that, when used, immensely increases the power of one’s arms? Throughout all classes, nationalities and religions the consensus was for ‘more technology’ because technology was viewed as powerful but neutral, entirely at the service of the user. Modern technology seemed to be applicable to any cultural project.
On 1 April 1991 Time magazine dedicated its front cover to fears The Archaeology of the Development Idea 23 about security, showing a uniformed body wearing a sheriff ’s badge marked ‘Global Cop’. The new attitude has its military expression in the present planning of a multinational intervention force. Whether this belongs to the Western European Union, NATO or the UN is of secondary importance. What is under way is an epoch-making reorientation of the military apparatus towards war of low and medium intensity in the South (and in the East, which is slowly slipping towards the South).
The Bemba in Zambia, for example, see a good harvest or a successful hunting expedition as a gift from their ancestors; they court the ancestors’ favour in the hope of higher production. Even the haggling and chaotic hustle and bustle in the souks of an Arab medina have nothing to do with undercutting the competition. Who pursues which of the many trades is determined by factors of social and geographical origin as well as by one’s religious allegiance. Then there are the cycles of cultivation practised by the farmers in Maharashtra, which neatly fit into the yearly round of weddings, festivals and pilgrimages.