Gerry McGovern1d ago
"The concept of “sustainable development” fuelling today’s sustainability industry may be traced back to the turn of the 14th century. The Holy Roman Empire’s imperialistic expansions into Africa and the Canary Islands eventually morphed into a burgeoning capitalist European colonial project, which then sought to undo the very environmental harms it had wrought through colonial extraction, through further colonial domination and social control."
Samantha Suppiah
https://medium.com/possible-futures/colonial-sustainability-tracing-the-sustainability-industrys-ecocidal-lineage-from-the-doctrine-e6a95b64cbda
Colonial Sustainability: Tracing the sustainability industry’s ecocidal lineage from the Doctrine of Discovery

Co-Authors Christina M. Sayson, Samantha Suppiah, Anna Denardin, and Luiza Oliveira of POSSIBLE FUTURES, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, and Ayabulela Mhlahlo Abstract The concept of “sustainable…

POSSIBLE FUTURES
Erin Conroy1d ago
Show threadGerry McGovern
"Colonisation may be described as a dominant and abusive cultural system without concern nor responsibility for the regulation of ecological or environmental functions it profits from, thereby facilitating the Sixth Mass Extinction and planetary systems collapse. It quashes local democratic movements to eliminate other cultural movements and advances a governance system that spawned such bodies as the sustainability industry to perpetuate itself."
https://medium.com/possible-futures/colonial-sustainability-tracing-the-sustainability-industrys-ecocidal-lineage-from-the-doctrine-e6a95b64cbda
Colonial Sustainability: Tracing the sustainability industry’s ecocidal lineage from the Doctrine of Discovery

Co-Authors Christina M. Sayson, Samantha Suppiah, Anna Denardin, and Luiza Oliveira of POSSIBLE FUTURES, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, and Ayabulela Mhlahlo Abstract The concept of “sustainable…

POSSIBLE FUTURES
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