its too late for green: pedagogy for collapse?
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It’s too late for green:
pedagogy for collapse?
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our current industrial civilisation is unsustainable
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proven and workable solutions have been found for environmental problems that are limited in scale, highly visible and acute, for example, industrial pollution... GEO4
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climate change is having severe effects...extreme weather conditions impacting vulnerable populations...indoor and outdoor pollution causing premature deaths...drastic reductions of fish stocks...accelerating species extinction rates...
Ecosystem services collapse is a distinct possibility. (GEO4)
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A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a massive expansion of production and refining capacity [reducing] the prospects for growth in both the developing and developed worlds. Such an economic slowdown would exacerbate other unresolved tensions, push fragile and failing states further down the path toward collapse, and perhaps have serious economic impact on both China and India. (Joint Operating Environment...US Joint Forces Command 2010)
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humanity has the ability to make development sustainable
(Brundtland Commission 1987)
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Global Change and the Earth System (Steffen et al.) IGBP
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Economic and political discourse:
Brussels has slashed its forecasts for Britain's growth prospects, leaving its predictions "more pessimistic" ...This means a weaker outlook for consumption than hoped, which will hit the economy's headline growth figures...Germany grew at an impressive 1.5pc quarter-on-quarter...[the] the UK's 0.5pc expansion [looks] paltry...the UK was stuck in Europe's economic "slow lane"...."Countries like France, Belgium, the Netherlands and even Spain have overtaken us while Germany is powering ahead," said Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor....(14 May 2011)
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‘Well-being can't be measured by money or traded in markets. It's about the beauty of our surroundings, the quality of our culture,
and, above all, the strength of our relationships’ (David Cameron 2007)
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"nothing is possible without economic growth. It's the most important thing that we have to secure...[the Budget is] "the most
pro-growth for a generation". (Cameron Mar 2011)
My main concern day to day is how do we make sure the American economy is growing," (Obama May 2011)
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Our long term economic growth relies on protecting and enhancing the environmental resources that underpin it... Government will seek to maximise economic growth, whilst decoupling it from impacts on the environment. (Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Feb 2011 UK Govt)
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(light) green discourse
calls for surface changes that leave underlying economic, social, cultural, political, ethical, educational systems
unexamined and unchanged
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we're not asking you to walk around in brown sacks, heavens no. Our duty is to offer a little encouragement to giving
something back by making smart choices; with new companies surfacing everyday, it means that whatever you enjoy, be it bangers and mash or travelling to luxury holiday
resorts, they can still be part of your life...Quite frankly, there's nothing like driving a supercar that does 0-60mph in under
2.5 seconds that also has an EcoBoost twin-turbo 3.5 litre V-6. Enough said. (Recognise Magazine)
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minute changes and more stuff...
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unsustainable society
voluntarily changeto become a different
kind of society (a sustainable one)
involuntary change to become a different
kind of society (collapse)
continuing on indefinitely (impossible)
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sustainability literacy:
reading and writing society
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reading: analysing the discourses that underlie an unsustainable
society
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writing: creatively rethinking and rewriting society along different lines
using alternative discourses
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productionproduction
consumptionconsumption
utility utility
efficiencyefficiency
The essential fact about production is so obvious that it hardly needs The essential fact about production is so obvious that it hardly needs stating: it involves the use of services of various sorts to generate stating: it involves the use of services of various sorts to generate output.output. (economics textbook) (economics textbook)
Economic discourses
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grumpy bull
farmer with shotgun
barbed wire
Enjoy the freshness of the outdoors in the safety of your own home.
Advertising
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the discourse of lifestyle magazinesthe discourse of lifestyle magazines
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the discourse of animal industries
death losseseuthanasiaboar powersow durabilitysow breakdown processed pigsvolume of pigsmeat-type animalpig performancecull sow(Pork Industry Handbook)
an efficient flow of feed, hogs and waste (Pork Industry Handbook).
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……the structural elements of an ecosystem are stocks of biotic and abiotic the structural elements of an ecosystem are stocks of biotic and abiotic resources (minerals, water, trees, other plants and animals), which when resources (minerals, water, trees, other plants and animals), which when combined together generate ecosystem…servicescombined together generate ecosystem…services (ecology textbook) (ecology textbook)
the discourse of ecologythe discourse of ecology
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the discourse of new economics
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the discourse of haiku
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over optimistic ...
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unsustainable society
voluntarily changeto become a different
kind of society (a sustainable one)
involuntary change to become a different
kind of society (collapse)
continuing on indefinitely (impossible)
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dark mountain
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We believe that the roots of [social and ecological] crises lie in the stories we have been telling ourselves. We intend to challenge the stories which underpin our
civilisation: the myth of progress, the myth of human centrality, and the myth of our separation from ‘nature’. These myths are more dangerous for the fact that we
have forgotten they are myths.
dark mountain
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We will reassert the role of story-telling as more than mere entertainment. It is through stories that we weave
reality...We will celebrate writing and art which is grounded in a sense of place and of time. (Dark
Mountain, 2010)
dark mountain
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pedagogy for collapse
or
pedagogy for what comes next