Scientists Warning Proposes a Roadmap to Ecological Justice
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Scientists Warning Proposes a Roadmap to Ecological Justice
Date Written: June 12, 2023
Abstract
This ‘Roadmap to Ecological Justice’ challenges two common cultural issues which
are preventing genuine mitigation from climate breakdown and ecological collapse;
these are coercive consumerism and peer-pressure to procreate. Commercial
advertising drives peer pressure to approve and indulge in non-essential consumption.
Economic growth prioritises financial profit before the wellbeing of ecosystems. This
mindset has caused chronic ecological overshoot for over fifty years, destabilising the
climate and shared ecosystems. In this way the financial model of growth economics
contravenes our declared human right to a healthy environment.
The writing style involves the reader in the emerging social evolution; and envisions
communal wellbeing arising from shared ambition to equitably minimise our global
ecological footprint. The ‘UN Charter for Ecological Justice’ empowers people to feel
proud and justified as they collaborate to equitably and voluntarily minimise global
consumption, and encourages minimal family size to reduce suffering throughout
global climate and ecosystems collapse. There are practical steps described together
with new concepts; which combine to maximise equitable, and peaceful mitigation
from the escalating collapse. The Roadmap is designed to minimise unhappiness and
unfulfilled lives throughout the rapidly unfolding collapse; it steers the strength in our
emotions positively, and expands collective wisdom into a wider perspective. The
evidence of the ongoing collapse is no longer negotiable.
Keywords: Degrowth; Post-growth; Beyond-growth; Eco-justice; Overpopulation; Overconsumption; Pronatalism; Ecological Justice; Eco-justice; Climate Justice; Ecological Overshoot; Ubuntu; Emotional Maturity; Emotional Evolution
JEL Classification: F00, I00, K00, O00
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