Ökologisch ungleicher Tausch: Wachstum auf Kosten von Mensch und Natur: Nur ungleiche Material- und Geldflüsse in globalem Maßstab ermöglichen eine wachstumsorientierte Entwicklung

Anke Schaffartzik; Franziska Kusche

doi:10.32387/prokla.v50i198.1854

Authors

Anke Schaffartzik Institut für Soziale Ökologie (SEC), Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Franziska Kusche

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v50i198.1854

Keywords:

Inequality, trade, resources, social metabolism, material flows

Abstract

International ecological inequality is a precondition for the growth-led ‘development’ currently unfolding at the global level with disastrous environmental and social impacts. As ecologically unequal exchange, international trade leads to the constriction of the ecological operating space of some while expanding that operating space for others. This not only allows for further growth but also exacerbates already existing ecological inequalities and asymmetrical power relations.

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