A Livable Planet

Human Rights in the Global Economy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvMadison Powers,Georgetown University) Powers, Madison (Francis J. McNamara Jr Professor Emeritus, Francis J. McNamara Jr Professor Emeritus

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Humanity faces an ecological predicament, consisting of a cluster of concurrent, mutually reinforcing crises. They are causally intertwined and resistant to resolution in isolation. In addition to climate disruption, the cluster includes land-system change, loss of biodiversity and biosphere integrity, alteration of biogeochemical cycles, and decreased freshwater availability. Madison Powers argues for a targeted human rights approach to the resolution of our predicament. He assigns priority to a bundle of rights strategically important for counteracting ecologically unsustainable, economically predatory market practices. These practices exhaust natural resources or degrade the environmental conditions essential for a livable planet. Their harmful ecological effects result from or are exacerbated by the structure of the global political economy, especially institutions that influence the acquisition, control, and use of land, energy, and water resources. These institutions shape the economic decisions that have transformed every region of the globe and altered the planetary conditions that support life on Earth. A livable planet thus requires changes in humanity's relation to the rest of nature, which in turn, requires transformation of our economic relationships and the political and economic ideals underpinning them. Specifically, the balance of power between states and markets should be reversed by implementing an enforceable institutional bulwark against market practices that subvert the ecological conditions essential for the secure realization of human rights. These practices enable the powerful to hoard economic opportunities, crowd out sustainable alternatives, extract resources from vulnerable communities, shift environmental and economic burdens, dodge political and market accountability, and hijack public institutions for private purposes.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-19
Mått203 x 140 x 27 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197756003

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Madison Powers is Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University, and former Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, where he served as Director from 2000-2009. He is a Fellow of the Hastings Center, and recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award. He is co-author of two books with Ruth Faden, Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Care Policy (OUP, 2006), and Structural Injustice: Power, Advantage, and Human Rights (OUP, 2019). Before his career as a philosopher, he practiced law, primarily in health and environmental law.

1. Our Ecological Predicament1.1. Convergent Crises1.2. Summary of Chapters2. Sustainability and Political Economy2.1. Conceptions of Sustainability 2.2. The Logic of Capitalism2.3. Psychological Explanations2.4. Economic Growth2.5. The Consequences of Inequality2.6. Practical Implications3. Market Fundamentalism3.1. Market Fundamentalism and Neoliberal Policies3.2. Three Rationales for Market Fundamentalism3.3. The Non-interference Conception of Freedom4. Human Rights and Ecological Goals4.1. The Normative Framework of Human Rights4.2. Rights, Duties, and Structural Inequality4.3. Three Problems of Application4.4. Rights, Duties, and Violations 5. Market Power and Legal Advantage5.1. The Consolidation of Market Power5.2. The Realignment of State Power5.3. Gaming the System of States5.4. Control over Capital Investment6. Land Use and its Consequences6.1. Farmland and Food Security 6.2. Impacts Beyond Land6.3. Forests and Biosphere Integrity6.4. Land and Human Rights 7. Water and Social Organization7.1. The Management of Scarcity7.2. The Political Economy of Water Resources7.3. The Privatization of Essential Services8. Energy Transition Pathways8.1 False Hopes8.2. False Starts8.3. Path Dependencies8.4. Human Rights and Alternative Pathways9. Control over the Future9.1 Wealth and Power9.2. Sovereign States and Global ProblemsIndex

The manuscript is extraordinary in its novelty of view, breadth of discussion, detailed scholarship, and ambition. I know of nothing like it, certainly not in philosophy, nothing that takes the Anthropocene itself as the focus of sustained book-length policy discussion... Moreover, it claims that politics and policies that put human rights first are the best, perhaps the only way, to halt political and economic movement towards environmental catastrophe. The centrality and necessity of a human rights approach is novel.

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