The success of the anti-colonial movements in the middle of the 20th century triggered a crisis in the core states, as it constrained their access to cheap labour and resources. In the 1980s, they retaliated to restore the colonial structure of the world economy. For...
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Responsibility for Climate Breakdown
Rich countries are responsible for the vast majority of the excess emissions that are causing climate breakdown, while the impacts fall disproportionately on communities in the global South. The climate crisis is playing out along colonial lines.Climate breakdown is...
Climate Reparations
Over-emitting countries hold responsibility for climate breakdown and owe reparations to low-emitting countries for atmospheric appropriation and climate-related damages.Our page on responsibility for climate breakdown demonstrates that the countries of the global...
Gender Inequality
Capital accumulation requires cheapening labour. Women suffer this pressure disproportionately, as ideologies of patriarchy and sexism are leveraged to deny them full rights. The result is large and persistent gender inequalities in income, education and political...
Planetary Doughnuts
The global economy massively overuses resources and yet still fails to meet basic human needs. This occurs because production is organized around corporate profit and elite accumulation rather than human well-being.In 2012, the economist Kate Raworth created the...
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