‘Space is the only way to go’

Storr, Cait

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“…The practice was reproduced at the fall of the Soviet Union by Russian oligarchs. In late capitalism, billionaires of the ultra-carbonised class devise techno-utopian plans to colonise new worlds, sustaining their fortunes through narratives of climate crisis mitigation (Gunderson et al 2021;Storr 2021). In other words, as they prepare their exit from an unbearably warm planet, their projects rely on processes of wealth accumulation at the heart of Earth's demise.…”

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Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

Deberdt,

Le Billon

2024

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This article theorises the processes of colonisation, wealth accumulation, and inequalities creation that the current paradigm of a resource‐hungry green transition enacts on the most vulnerable populations. We suggest that the extractivist logics and related technical fixes are leading to a “climate necropolitics”. In this, the socio‐economic system is increasingly defined by classes’ carbon exposure and consumption. Through the “green growth” of late capitalism, we theorise the advent of four carbon‐defined classes. Bounded by the access to climate tech capital and consumption of low‐carbon products, these include the ultra‐carbonised, decarbonised, still‐carbonised, and uncarbonised classes—with the first two acting as dominant classes and necropolitical agents sustained by the remaining lower classes. Inspired by Marxist scholars, we suggest that the current status quo is untenable and will result in class warfare during which coalitions between classes could reorient the “make live and let die” of the current green transition paradigm.

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Section: Necropolitics and The Abuses Of Green Capitalismmentioning

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Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

Deberdt,

Le Billon

2024

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The Rights of Nature as a Legal Response to the Global Environmental Crisis? A Critical Review of International Law’s ‘Greening’ Agenda

Gilbert

Macpherson

Jones

et al. 2023

Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

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Over the past decade and a half, various natural entities have been recognised as having rights or legal personhood in certain domestic jurisdictions. The idea of nature as rights-bearing is seen by advocates to be a new and improved response to environmental threats. While rights of nature approaches are increasingly evident in transnational law, orthodox international law has yet to engage seriously with such approaches, despite increasing calls to recognise the rights of nature in international law. In this contribution we consider the potential and limitations of rights-based protections of nature as part of the ‘greening’ of international law. We argue that attempts to incorporate the rights of nature into international law need to be understood within the wider context and history of international law, including trajectories of colonialism and economic resource exploitation. Although rights of nature approaches may offer a path towards a greener international law, this path should not be followed in a way that reproduces problematic, homogenising aspects of international law, but instead centres human relationality with nature in place. Instead, we argue that there are important lessons to be learnt from transnational attempts to protect and implement rights of nature and legal personhood, especially where models are informed by Indigenous peoples’ relationships with nature.

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Outer Space Mining: Exploring Techno-Utopianism in a Time of Climate Crisis

Deberdt

Billon

2023

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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‘Space is the only way to go’

Cited by 4 publications

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Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

Green Transition's Necropolitics: Inequalities, Climate Extractivism, and Carbon Classes

The Rights of Nature as a Legal Response to the Global Environmental Crisis? A Critical Review of International Law’s ‘Greening’ Agenda

Outer Space Mining: Exploring Techno-Utopianism in a Time of Climate Crisis

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